From 634c12c34c6a7f0700c8af26be3afe62801739b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: guy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:05:51 +0000
Subject: Note that wiring the current longest string in a column into
 "get_column_width()" is somewhat fragile, and suggest a possible alternative.

git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@126 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
---
 column.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'column.c')

diff --git a/column.c b/column.c
index 1a67e1ec09..42f667e4fe 100644
--- a/column.c
+++ b/column.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* column.c
  * Routines for handling column preferences
  *
- * $Id: column.c,v 1.3 1998/11/18 03:01:26 gerald Exp $
+ * $Id: column.c,v 1.4 1998/12/16 09:05:51 guy Exp $
  *
  * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
  * By Gerald Combs <gerald@zing.org>
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ get_column_format_matches(gboolean *fmt_list, gint format) {
 }
 
 /* Returns the longest possible width for a particular column type */
+/* XXX - this is somewhat fragile; we should probably generate */
+/* the summary lines for all the packets first, and compute the */
+/* maximum column width as the maximum string width of all the */
+/* values in that column. */
 gint
 get_column_width(gint format, GdkFont *font) {
   switch (format) {
-- 
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