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| author | Roland Knall <roland.knall@br-automation.com> | 2016-09-05 07:54:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Roland Knall <rknall@gmail.com> | 2016-09-07 09:09:30 +0000 |
| commit | ee1a4109cfc8fb314d151f59859a348765ba9dbf (patch) | |
| tree | 36f0efeb8e85e339824ce3d63841f87385ab971b /doc/README.extcap | |
| parent | 859cf86c8d25b7ead113821ece4e9dec853e70d6 (diff) | |
extcap: Add tool-specified helppage
Allow the tool to provide a link to a helppage, displayed
by clicking on help in the configuration dialog.
The URL will be opened using an URL based service, therefore local
as well as remote URLs are possible.
Change-Id: I58b30244e97919d5cf6892faf96536ddc30fb5a7
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/17549
Reviewed-by: Roland Knall <rknall@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/README.extcap')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.extcap | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.extcap b/doc/README.extcap index 6a4f33f44d..fb901a73ea 100644 --- a/doc/README.extcap +++ b/doc/README.extcap @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ in the doc/extcap.4 generated man page (in the build dir). Example: $ extcapbin --extcap-interfaces -extcap {version=1.0} +extcap {version=1.0}{help=Some help url} interface {value=example1}{display=Example interface 1 for extcap} interface {value=example2}{display=Example interface 2 for extcap} @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ interface in the about dialog of Wireshark (Qt only). The value for each interface will be used in subsequent calls as the interface name IFACE. +Using the help argument, an interface may provide a generic help url for the extcap utility. + STEP2: the extcap is queried for valid DLTs (Data Link Types) for all the interfaces returned by the step 1. |