Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problem with Match -> Selected and FT_BYTES

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 04:45, Tim Potter wrote:
> While mucking around with the Match -> Selected function yesterday
> (what a great feature - I can't believe I had never used it before!)
> I found a bit of a problem.
> 
> Specifically, if you are trying to match a FT_BYTES field that is
> longer than 20 characters, the filter string generated by ethereal
> is incorrect.  It looks like the gtk label string is used to generate
> the filter text and the ellipsis is rightly detected as a syntax error.
> 
> Anyone have any good ideas on how to fix it?  My gtk programming is
> very rusty but I remember some sort of data field attached to all
> gtk widgets which could be used to store the full field representation.
> 

This is now fixed in the latest CVS.

--gilbert