Re: Planning the next major release

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jun 4, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:

> We've made a lot of progress but are still lacking many features including
> the Wireless Toolbar, a few Statistics dialogs,

More than just a few, actually.  "Service Response Time" isn't a dialog, it's a menu under which a lot of other menu 
items for statistics dialogs exists.

What we should ultimately have is a mechanism by which a dissector can provide statistics tables, with common UI code 
presenting the tables - that way, the XYZZYP Service Response Time table can be shown in printed text form by TShark 
and GUI form by Qt Wireshark (and GTK+ Wireshark if we don't just delete the GTK+ code) and so on.

I've worked on that every so often; that's a lot of the reason for the stuff I've added to epan/stat_tap_ui.h, and I'd 
like to get to the point where a tap can say "OK, here's the -z flag name, and here's where my menu item goes and what 
it's name is, and here are the parameters you can specify", and have the -z option be parsed by common code and have 
the parameters part of the dialog window be laid out and handled by common code".

After that, there should be a way in which a tap can say "OK, my presentation is a set of tables ("set" because, for 
example, the SMB SRT statistics has three tables, with request types and transaction types as keys), with these names, 
and these sets of columns, with these column names and types".  The stats tree stuff is a bit more specialized than 
that, as it has a fixed set of columns.  You could perhaps use a general "set of tables" mechanism, if the table rows 
can be expanded, to implement both the stats tree stuff and the SRT tables and perhaps other statistics taps.  "stats 
tree" statistics can already be done without writing any GUI code; this would let a bunch of other statistics be 
written that way as well.
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