This patch adds (ten) temporary coloring rules which will only live until Wireshark is

quit. Temporary coloring filters can be set by:

- pressing <ctrl>-<digit> will create a conversation coloring filter based on the
  addresses of the currently selected packet (order TCP/UDP/IP/Ethernet)
  This can also be achieved from the "View|Colorize Conversation" menu.

- Rightclicking on a packet in the packet-list will give the option to
  "Colorize Conversation" just as "Conversation Filter" does.

- Rightclicking on an item in the packet-detail-list will give the option to
  "Colorize with filter" which works similar to "Apply as filter"

Temporary filters can be cleared from the same menus or by pressing <ctrl>-<space>.

This patch also adds an item to the above mentioned menu's to add a permanent color filter
in the same way.


The colors for the temporary coloring rules are now hardcoded as I do not know
how to change the color of menu-items and therefore I chose to use icons to
show the actual color of each of the ten temporary coloring rules. Is it at all
possible to have different menu items in different colors?

One other way of solving this is to recreate the icons on the fly after changing
the colors. I will have a look into that once it is clear whether I can use 
different colors within the menu structure.


svn path=/trunk/; revision=23560

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/help/getting_started.txt b/help/getting_started.txt
index 43cc631301..8e69889e95 100644
--- a/help/getting_started.txt
+++ b/help/getting_started.txt
@@ -54,9 +54,12 @@ You can reduce the number of packets shown (to filter out the uninteresting ones
 
 Coloring Rules
 --------------
-The packet list can be colored; this means applying different colors for different packets. For example you could choose to have all HTTP packets shown in red and all other TCP traffic shown in yellow.
+The packet list can be colored; this means applying different colors for different packets. For example you could choose to have all HTTP packets shown in red and all other TCP traffic shown in yellow.  There are two types of color rules, temporary (only used in this session) and permanent (save between sessions).
+
+Temporary coloring rules can be created by either pressing <ctrl> and one of the number keys (0-9). This will create a conversation color rule based on the currently selected packet. Temporary color rules can also be added by choosing "color X" from different menus.
+
+Under "View->Coloring Rules..." you will see a list of permanentcolor rules. This list is processed for each packet from top to bottom, until one of the rules matches (in which case the color settings of that rule are used for that packet). If no rule matches, the packet will not be colored at all.
 
-Under "View->Coloring Rules..." you will see a list of color rules. This list is processed for each packet from top to bottom, until one of the rules matches (in which case the color settings of that rule are used for that packet). If no rule matches, the packet will not be colored at all.
 Please note: setting lots of color rules can slow down processing time a bit when showing huge capture files.
 
 Other display things