Re: Question regarding QT/future Wireshark version

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

On 1/5/12 12:22 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> Hopefully we're using a Qt widget that supports generating column text as needed, similar to what the *new* GTK+ 
> widget does, so that the as-needed generation of the columns would work similarly.

We do, via QTreeView (packet_list.cpp) and QAbstractItemModel
(packet_list_model.cpp).

> If the add-ons are in the dissecting code, there's no GUI code there; Wireshark handles the GUI display, and TShark 
> handles the text output.  I doubt that we'll be linking TShark with Qt, so I don't think its non-GUI classes will be 
> available for dissectors to use.  (Qt isn't, as far as I know, split into a "non-GUI utility library" like GLib and a 
> "GUI toolkit" like GTK+.)

> From what I understand QtCore corresponds to GLib, providing basic data
types and functionality (QString, QThread, etc) and QtGui corresponds to
GTK+, providing the UI classes.
___________________________________________________________________________
Sent via:    Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>
Archives:    http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev
Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev
             mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe