I am attempting to add functionality to the Wireshark UI, specifically I am trying to add extra options to the statistics window of the UI. What source folder is this code in and how difficult is the editing of there files?
Have a look in ui\qt.
There are a number of statistics dialogs, which one are you interested in modifying?
Editing the files is easy. Modifying the code to compile and then do something useful is more difficult. If you're building Wireshark for the first time, please follow the Developers Guide exactly as written and make sure you can build the stock version before modifying anything.
I am interested in merging some extra statistics tabs from version 1.9 of Wireshark. The older files were located in ui/gtk in 1.9 thus my wondering where the new ones were located. The older files were named proto_ find _ dropouts_dlg.c I have created dissectors before, but have no experience editing the gui portion of the code.
As GTK and Qt are totally different, not least in C vs C++, you'll have to work out how the GTK elements can be recreated using Qt elements in the new dialog. Basically the old dialog will only serve as an outline template.
Ok thank you for the help! I wonder why the BACnet IP and MSTP statistics were removed from the older version, however, I will attempt to remedy this.
Yes you are correct.
There has never been a source file named proto_find _dropouts_dlg.c in any official release of Wireshark, nor has there ever been an official Wireshark release with a version number of 1.9.
That must have been an unofficial addition somebody made; as it's a ".c" file, it's C code, not C++ code, and thus was written for the GTK+ user interface. It will need to be rewritten for the Qt user interface.
There is also no evidence of any MSTP statistics dialog in the source code for the GTK+ user interface; that may also have been an unofficial addition.
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