The statusbar displays informational messages.
</para>
<para>
- In general, the left side will show context related information, while the
- right side will show the current number of packets.
+ In general, the left side will show context related information, the
+ middle part will show the current number of packets, and the right side will
+ show the selected configuration profile. Drag the handles between the text
+ areas to change the size.
</para>
<para>
- <figure id="ChUseWiresharkStatusbarEmpty">
- <title>The initial Statusbar</title>
- <graphic entityref="WiresharkStatusbarEmpty" format="PNG"/>
- </figure>
- This statusbar is shown while no capture file is loaded, e.g. when
- Wireshark is started.
+ <figure id="ChUseWiresharkStatusbarEmpty">
+ <title>The initial Statusbar</title>
+ <graphic entityref="WiresharkStatusbarEmpty" format="PNG"/>
+ </figure>
+ This statusbar is shown while no capture file is loaded, e.g. when
+ Wireshark is started.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <figure id="ChUseWiresharkStatusbarLoaded">
+ <title>The Statusbar with a loaded capture file</title>
+ <graphic entityref="WiresharkStatusbarLoaded" format="PNG"/>
+ </figure>
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>The colorized bullet</command> on the left shows the highest expert
+ info level found in the currently loaded capture file. Hovering the mouse
+ over this icon will show a textual description of the expert info level,
+ and clicking the icon will bring up the Expert Infos dialog box.
+ For a detailed description of expert info, see <xref linkend="ChAdvExpert"/>.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- <figure id="ChUseWiresharkStatusbarLoaded">
- <title>The Statusbar with a loaded capture file</title>
- <graphic entityref="WiresharkStatusbarLoaded" format="PNG"/>
- </figure>
- The left side shows information about the capture file, its
- name, its size and the elapsed time while it was being captured.
+ <command>The left side</command> shows information about the capture file, its
+ name, its size and the elapsed time while it was being captured.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- The right side shows the current number of packets in the
- capture file. The following values are displayed:
- <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+ <command>The middle part</command> shows the current number of packets in the capture file.
+ The following values are displayed:
+ <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>P:</emphasis> the number of captured packets</para>
+ <para><emphasis>Packets:</emphasis> the number of captured packets</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>D:</emphasis> the number of packets currently being
- displayed</para>
+ <para><emphasis>Displayed:</emphasis> the number of packets currently being
+ displayed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>M:</emphasis> the number of marked packets</para>
+ <para><emphasis>Marked:</emphasis> the number of marked packets</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ If Wireshark was unable to capture all packets the following value is also displayed:
+ <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Dropped:</emphasis> the number of dropped packets</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- <figure id="ChUseWiresharkStatusbarSelected">
- <title>The Statusbar with a selected protocol field</title>
- <graphic entityref="WiresharkStatusbarSelected" format="PNG"/>
- </figure>
- This is displayed if you have selected a protocol field from the
- "Packet Details" pane.
+ <command>The left side</command> shows the selected configuration profile.
+ Clicking in this part of the statusbar will bring up a menu with all available
+ configuration profiles, and selecting from this list will change configuration profile.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ <figure id="ChUseWiresharkStatusbarProfile">
+ <title>The Statusbar with a configuration profile menu</title>
+ <graphic entityref="WiresharkStatusbarProfile" format="PNG"/>
+ </figure>
+ For a detailed description of configuration profiles, see
+ <xref linkend="ChCustConfigProfilesSection"/>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <figure id="ChUseWiresharkStatusbarSelected">
+ <title>The Statusbar with a selected protocol field</title>
+ <graphic entityref="WiresharkStatusbarSelected" format="PNG"/>
+ </figure>
+ This is displayed if you have selected a protocol field from the
+ "Packet Details" pane.
</para>
<tip><title>Tip!</title>
- <para>
- The value between the brackets (in this example
- <command>arp.opcode</command>) can be used as a display filter string,
- representing the selected protocol field.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ The value between the brackets (in this example
+ <command>arp.opcode</command>) can be used as a display filter string,
+ representing the selected protocol field.
+ </para>
</tip>
+ <para>
+ <figure id="ChUseWiresharkStatusbarFilter">
+ <title>The Statusbar with a display filter message</title>
+ <graphic entityref="WiresharkStatusbarFilter" format="PNG"/>
+ </figure>
+ This is displayed if you are trying to use a display filter with
+ unexpected results. For a detailed description of the display filter,
+ see <xref linkend="ChWorkBuildDisplayFilterSection"/>.
+ </para>
+
</section>
</chapter>