Re: Preferences needed during Wireshark startup

[Michael Mann <mmann78 () netscape net>]

FWIW, I'm working a little bit towards refactoring the preference functionality.  Nothing big, just trying to 
encapsulate all functionality into the prefs.c file (it's mostly the memory management issues that I want to simplify 
for (code) users of the preference interface).
I'm not sure if this would make any design related to this easier, I just wanted to put it out there to minimize 
potential merge issues.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>
To: wireshark-dev <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>
Sent: Thu, Jan 5, 2017 10:30 am
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Preferences needed during Wireshark startup



Hi,
Looking into the time required to start Wireshark I came across a problem with the console on Windows where the 
preferences
    prefs.console_log_level
    prefs.gui_console_open
is needed for logging to work but preferences are set pretty late in the startup phases as dissectors etc need to have 
their preferences loaded first.
I’m also thinking about adding preferences for loading extcap plugins or not which would make it easier to “activate” 
them when needed and perhaps chose
Which ones one like to use. But those preferences would be needed before the preference file is loaded currently.
One possible solution could be to load and parse the file into a structure for later processing early in the startup 
and then “look” at the list of preferences
When needed during startup or create a new file with “basic preferences” loaded early or…
I’m not sure I’m up to taking on this task but at least we could discuss design ideas and if some one is willing to 
take it on I’d be grateful.
 
Best regards
Anders
 

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