FrameSeer

An updater has been released for FrameSeer. The Traffic tab now offers three graphical views: the traffic Map (unchanged), a Protocol display to view a histogram of encapsulations at layers two, three and four, and a Size display to view a histogram of frame sizes at layer two. The Edit/Copy command now works in the Capture tab. One row of tab-separated text is copied to the clipboard for each selected row. Information on the clipboard can be pasted into another application for further analysis. The Save Selection command now offers three choices of format. The default choice saves the selection in tcpdump-native format. The other two choices allow the user to save either summary or decode information to a text file in tab-separated form. A new Security Privileges menu in the FrameSeer menu allows users to explicitly grant and revoke FrameSeer's privileges. Revoking privileges allows ordinary Finder operations like copying to be performed on FrameSeer. FrameSeer will automatically prompt to re-acquire the privileges it needs at next launch or if the start button is clicked. Following a request from a number of users, a Maximum Width of Hex & ASCII Columns slider has been added to the Decoding & Searching tab of the Preferences dialog. This allows the user to control the maximum number of bytes shown in the Hex and ASCII columns in the Decode tab. All open Decode tabs will be redrawn at the new width. The width setting applies to on-screen display and also when information is copied to the clipboard or saved to a tab-separated format text file. However, it does not apply to printed decodes where the width remains fixed at a maximum of 8 bytes. The Help menu now has a Check for Updates command. A dialog opens where the user can click on a button to determine whether LGOSystems has released a version of FrameSeer which is later than the running version. If a later version is available, the user can click on a second button to be taken to the LGOSystems web site where he/she can download the appropriate updater.