X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/1ddda1ca78c0458141b45197544597c566184b6f..0980c4f28e5909a05be74af88732fddd7086f2f6:/macosx/README.OSX diff --git a/macosx/README.OSX b/macosx/README.OSX index 9dded051..24e29342 100644 --- a/macosx/README.OSX +++ b/macosx/README.OSX @@ -16,19 +16,12 @@ version of the port decides to look somewhere completely different for the data and therefore loses them all. If that happens, don't say you weren't warned! -Even more importantly, the alert box that confirms host keys is not -yet implemented, and the application will bomb out and exit if it -should be needed. This means you cannot make an SSH connection to a -new host using the GUI PuTTY in this port: you must first run -`plink' (which should be exactly identical to the version in the -Unix port) and tell it to confirm the host key. - Other ways in which the port is currently unfinished include: - - terminal display is horribly slow +Missing terminal window features +-------------------------------- - - fatal errors are currently output via printf, which is obviously - wrong for a GUI application + - terminal display is horribly slow - fonts aren't configurable @@ -45,34 +38,44 @@ Other ways in which the port is currently unfinished include: starting position, plus remembering previous window positions per the Apple HIG) is not implemented - - close-on-exit isn't implemented +Missing alert box features +-------------------------- - warn-on-close isn't implemented - - SessionWindow's dealloc method does nothing yet, so leaks memory +Missing input features +---------------------- - use of Alt+numberpad to enter arbitrary numeric character codes is not yet supported - - cut and paste isn't supported - - - there's no Meta key yet. (I think it will have to be Command - rather than Option since the latter is necessary to send some - characters, including the rather important # on Apple UK - keyboards; but trapping Command- and sending it to the - window rather than the application menu requires me to make a - positive effort of some sort and I haven't got round to it yet.) + - there's no Meta key yet. (I'd like to at least have the + possibility of using Command rather than Option as the Meta key, + since the latter is necessary to send some characters, including + the rather important # on Apple UK keyboards; but trapping + Command- and sending it to the window rather than the + application menu requires me to make a positive effort of some + sort and I haven't got round to it yet. For those Mac users who + consider their Command key sacrosanct, don't worry, this option + _will_ be configurable and _will_ be off by default.) - there's no specials menu + - mouse activity isn't supported (neither cut-and-paste nor xterm + mouse tracking) + +Missing terminal emulation features +----------------------------------- + - currently no support for server-side window management requests (i.e. escape sequences to minimise or maximise the window, request or change its position and size, change its title etc) - window title is currently fixed +Other missing features +---------------------- + - no Event Log - no mid-session Change Settings - - - no icon (surprisingly important in an OS X app!)