1 This directory contains a Mac OS X port of PuTTY/pterm, running as a
2 native Aqua GUI application.
4 THIS PORT IS CURRENTLY UNFINISHED AND EXPERIMENTAL. You are welcome
5 to use it, but don't be surprised at unexpected behaviour. I'm not
8 In particular, I have not yet decided where OS X PuTTY should store
9 its configuration data. Options include storing it in ~/.putty to be
10 compatible with Unix PuTTY, storing it wherever is compatible with
11 Mac Classic PuTTY, storing it in a natively OS X location, or
12 sorting out the `config-locations' wishlist item and doing all
13 three. Therefore, if you start using this port and create a whole
14 load of saved sessions, you should not be surprised if a future
15 version of the port decides to look somewhere completely different
16 for the data and therefore loses them all. If that happens, don't
17 say you weren't warned!
19 Other ways in which the port is currently unfinished include:
21 - terminal display is horribly slow
23 - fatal errors are currently output via printf, which is obviously
24 wrong for a GUI application
26 - fonts aren't configurable
28 - several features are unimplemented in the terminal display:
29 underlining, non-solid-block cursors, double-width and
30 double-height line attributes, bold as font rather than as
31 colour, wide (CJK) characters, combining characters.
33 - there's no scrollbar
35 - terminal window resizing isn't implemented yet
37 - proper window placement (cascading down and right from the
38 starting position, plus remembering previous window positions per
39 the Apple HIG) is not implemented
41 - close-on-exit isn't implemented
43 - warn-on-close isn't implemented
45 - SessionWindow's dealloc method does nothing yet, so leaks memory
47 - use of Alt+numberpad to enter arbitrary numeric character codes
50 - cut and paste isn't supported
52 - there's no Meta key yet. (I think it will have to be Command
53 rather than Option since the latter is necessary to send some
54 characters, including the rather important # on Apple UK
55 keyboards; but trapping Command-<key> and sending it to the
56 window rather than the application menu requires me to make a
57 positive effort of some sort and I haven't got round to it yet.)
59 - there's no specials menu
61 - currently no support for server-side window management requests
62 (i.e. escape sequences to minimise or maximise the window,
63 request or change its position and size, change its title etc)
65 - window title is currently fixed
69 - no mid-session Change Settings
71 - no icon (surprisingly important in an OS X app!)