Re: [Wireshark-dev] Structure of protocol tree

2010-12-15 Thread Gerald Combs
What are you talking about? It's Wednesday. Everyone knows that UTF8Strings have indefinite lengths on Wednesdays. On Dec 15, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Jaap Keuter wrote: > Hi, > > "With the proper use of subtrees the structure of even the most complex > protocols becomes clear." > ... and then came AS

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Structure of protocol tree

2010-12-15 Thread Jaap Keuter
Hi, "With the proper use of subtrees the structure of even the most complex protocols becomes clear." ... and then came ASN.1 ... ;) Thanks, Jaap On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:32:13 +0100, "news.gmane.com" wrote: > "Jaap Keuter" wrote in > message news:75883c052eaf82074dac3aef04d29...@xs4all.nl... >

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Structure of protocol tree

2010-12-15 Thread news.gmane.com
"Jaap Keuter" wrote in message news:75883c052eaf82074dac3aef04d29...@xs4all.nl... > Hi, > > This 'colorize' is mainly intended to mark changeover into another > protocol. > Usually you see this at the top level (from the root), but occasionally > when a protocol is encapsulated (some ITU protoco

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Structure of protocol tree

2010-12-15 Thread Jaap Keuter
Hi, This 'colorize' is mainly intended to mark changeover into another protocol. Usually you see this at the top level (from the root), but occasionally when a protocol is encapsulated (some ITU protocols show this). As long as your 'structures' are at the top level, these could be considered vali

[Wireshark-dev] Structure of protocol tree

2010-12-15 Thread news.gmane.com
When I look at other dissector's output they use the proto_tree_add_protocol_format only for indicating that a new protocol is engaged. These protocol lines in the tree are also displayed in other colors. That makes it easy to navigate by eyes. I have a protocol with a lot of structures inside. Wh