a word to use in the progress dialog, and a flag indicating whether the
display filter is to be reevaluated or not, and:
have "colorize_packet()" call that routine with "Colorizing" and
FALSE as those arguments;
have the filtering code call that routine with "Filtering" and
TRUE as those arguments;
add an exported routine to call that routine with "Reprocessing"
and TRUE as those arguments, to use to re-generate the packet
list and to re-filter the packets if a protocol preference has
been changed.
Keep track of whether preferences are changed from their initial value
by a preferences file or a command-line option, or from their previous
value by the "Preferences" dialog box; have "prefs_apply_all()" only
call the "apply" callback for a module if they have.
Call "prefs_apply_all()" after the command-line arguments have been
parsed and after "OK" has been clicked in the "Preferences" dialog box,
to notify modules of preference changes if they've registered a callback
for that.
After "OK" has been clicked in the "Preferences" dialog box, if any
preferences have changed, call the reprocessing routine, as the summary
line for some frames and/or the current display filter's value when
applied to some frames may have changed as a result of a preference
change. Do the same after "OK" or "Apply" has been clicked in the
"Display Options" dialog box (as it controls a protocol preferences
item.
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same directory as the "manuf" file ("/etc" or "/usr/local/etc", most
likely).
Add a mechanism to allow modules (e.g., dissectors) to register
preference values, which:
can be put into the global or the user's preference file;
can be set from the command line, with arguments to the "-o"
flag;
can be set from tabs in the "Preferences" dialog box.
Use that mechanism to register the "Decode IPv4 TOS field as DiffServ
field" variable for IP as a preference.
Stuff that still needs to be done:
documenting the API for registering preferences;
documenting the "-o" values in the man page (probably needs a
flag similar to "-G", and a Perl script to turn the output into
documentation as is done with the list of field);
handling error checking for numeric values (range checking,
making sure that if the user changes the variable from the GUI
they change it to a valid numeric value);
using the callbacks to, for example, update the display when
preferences are changed (could be expensive);
panic if the user specifies a numeric value with a base other
than 10, 8, or 16.
We may also want to clean up the existing wired-in preferences not to
take effect the instant you tweak the widget, and to add an "Apply"
button to the "Preferences" dialog.
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Guy Harris