Re: Can I hook menu/GUI functions with LUA?

[Tony Trinh <tony19 () gmail com>]

Actually, my answer assumes you were asking if you can use WSLua to invoke
an existing menu (e.g., open the dialog from "Statistics > Conversations").

Is this assumption correct? What exactly are you trying to accomplish?


On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Tony Trinh <tony19 () gmail com> wrote:

> No, WSLua API won't help you there. It might be possible to use a
> 3rd-party Lua library via WSLua to do something gross like send
> menu-navigating key-presses (or window messages) to the Wireshark window,
> but it's probably easier to implement a WSLua binding for this (file an
> enhancement request at http://bugs.wireshark.org).
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Richard Sharpe <
> realrichardsharpe () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Can I use LUA to hook various menu functions, rather than add new menu
> > items?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Richard Sharpe
> > (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)
> >
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