Stephen Fisher wrote: > I need some people's opinions on how we should solve bug #1375: "Capture > Options with many IP addresses scrolls off screen" because I can't > decide the best way to do it. The problem is that the IP address: field > in the capture dialog makes the window as wide as the screen and scrolls > off the edge of the widget if there are many IP addresses on the > selected interface. > > So far in my local code base, I've introduced the ... at the end of the > label in GTK 2.6 and up and inserted an event box in between the hbox > for the IP address list and the IP address label so it now cuts it off > with the natural width of the window with ... or just cuts off before > the edge of the widget. The event box keeps it looking clean and > fitting within the hbox, and it even allows me to add tooltips when you > point to the label. However, with a lot of IP addresses the tooltip is > apparently too long and only flashes on the screen for a moment before > disappearing :). With a hand full of addresses, it works nicely. > > Should we list all of the IP addresses in some way - perhaps with > another button to pop-up a list? That seems like we're overdoing it, > but the user is saying that they usually want to look through the IPs at > the beginning or the end and I suspect that others would want to look at > any IP in the list. Or should we just keep it with the ... at the end > and fitting nicely into the capture dialog (requires the event box). > Any other ideas? > The best IMHO would be to show only something like you've described - cut after a specific amount of chars and append "...", the rest of the IP addresses should be displayed by the tooltip.
BTW: with IPv6 addresses, the described problem will be even more problematic. Would it be possible to add a CR and/or NL to the tooltip text, so the problem you've described with the tooltip too big doesn't happen? Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
