Re: GUI Enhancements

[Erik Tews <erik () datenzone de>]

Am Samstag, den 25.08.2012, 06:59 -0700 schrieb Richard Sharpe:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Erik Tews <erik () datenzone de> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I would like to write a script, which should generate a kind of
> > histogramm of the packet lengths of some packets. The filter expression
> > should be derived from the currently selected packet in the GUI. Is it
> > possible to access the currently selected packet in the GUI, and perhaps
> > add the script to a right-click menu on that packet, using a lua script?
> > If not, what would be the best option to add such a feature?
>
> One way to do this would be to add support to Lua for adding menu
> items to any named menu ...

Is it at least possible to get the currently selected packet in lua?

> I think you can easily do this sort of thing with tshark by the way,
> since you can do filtering in tshark and can extract the packet length
> field, etc.

I think I could also do it by hand in wireshark. But it would be nice,
if I could just select a packet, and a script would build a nice filter
for related packets and analyze them in a custom way.

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