How we can add Browse button in preferences for a Lua dissector?

From Edit -> Preferences menu under protocols tag if we have made our own protocol in that we want to add browse button to browse the particular file as like in SSL how we can achieve that using LUA Script??

asked 03 Mar '15, 20:55

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edited 04 Mar '15, 01:59

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Unfortunately, the prefs_register_filename_preference() function isn't exposed in the Lua API, so you can't have such a preference in a Lua dissector, only in a dissector written in C.

@Hadriel, this might be something useful to add to the Lua API in a future release.

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answered 04 Mar '15, 01:59

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