Re: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9817] Provide a way to clear the capture window without restarting the capture or reapplying the filter

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

On Feb 28, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com> wrote:

> How about a third choice: just clear the summary pane (or scroll down so that the previous last line shown is at now 
> the top (or similar) ?

The summary pane currently shows what packets are in the capture, so "clearing the summary pane" and "discarding the 
packets in the capture" are inherently the same operation.

Are you suggesting that we change the Wireshark internal model so that there is no longer one frame data structure for 
every packet in the file, or that we, in effect, have *two* forms of filtering of the display - filtering based on a 
filter expression and filtering based on "don't display any packets before this one"?

If so, which packets should, for example, a Save, Save As, or Export Specified Packets operation see?  Should it see 
the ones "cleared" from the display?
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