Re: [Ethereal-dev] A dynamic number of subtrees

[Stefano Pettini <spettini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> This *does* mean that if you have two IP address TLVs in a packet, and 
> you open one of them up but not the other, and you then select a 
> different packet and then go back to the first packet, *both* IP address 
> TLVs will be opened up.

Ok, if I have 2 IP addresses in each packet, I could use 2 different 
etts to keep their subtrees separated.

But if I have N IP addresses, with N different from packet to packet, 
how can (or should) I implement etts and subtrees logic?

Probably, if N is limited, I can register Nmax etts in advance.

> there's not necessarily any indication that the second TLV is the one 
> you always want opened (maybe you want the next-to-the-last TLV opened), 
> so it's not clear that'd be the right thing to do.

This is not important. If the user navigates across packets, he could 
find these subtrees always closed.

If I register a common set of etts, the state of the subtrees will be 
kept from packet to packet, for subtrees present in both. Am I right? 
This seems the right way.

Thanks.

Ciao
Stefano