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After the recent Seat and LogContext revamps, _nearly_ all the remaining uses of the type 'Frontend' were in terminal.c, which needs all sorts of interactions with the GUI window the terminal lives in, from the obvious (actually drawing text on the window, reading and writing the clipboard) to the obscure (minimising, maximising and moving the window in response to particular escape sequences). All of those functions are now provided by an abstraction called TermWin. The few remaining uses of Frontend after _that_ are internal to a particular platform directory, so as to spread the implementation of that particular kind of Frontend between multiple source files; so I've renamed all of those so that they take a more specifically named type that refers to the particular implementation rather than the general abstraction. So now the name 'Frontend' no longer exists in the code base at all, and everywhere one used to be used, it's completely clear whether it was operating in one of Frontend's three abstract roles (and if so, which), or whether it was specific to a particular implementation. Another type that's disappeared is 'Context', which used to be a typedef defined to something different on each platform, describing whatever short-lived resources were necessary to draw on the terminal window: the front end would provide a ready-made one when calling term_paint, and the terminal could request one with get_ctx/free_ctx if it wanted to do proactive window updates. Now that drawing context lives inside the TermWin itself, because there was never any need to have two of those contexts live at the same time. (Another minor API change is that the window-title functions - both reading and writing - have had a missing 'const' added to their char * parameters / return values.) I don't expect this change to enable any particularly interesting new functionality (in particular, I have no plans that need more than one implementation of TermWin in the same application). But it completes the tidying-up that began with the Seat and LogContext rework.
PuTTY README
============
This is the README file for the PuTTY installer distribution. If
you're reading this, you've probably just run our installer and
installed PuTTY on your system.
What should I do next?
----------------------
If you want to use PuTTY to connect to other computers, or use PSFTP
to transfer files, you should just be able to run them from the
Start menu.
If you want to use the command-line-only file transfer utility PSCP,
you will probably want to put the PuTTY installation directory on
your PATH. On Windows 7 and similar versions, you can do this at
Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced system
settings > Environment Variables.
Some versions of Windows will refuse to run HTML Help files (.CHM)
if they are installed on a network drive. If you have installed
PuTTY on a network drive, you might want to check that the help file
works properly. If not, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054
for information on how to solve this problem.
What do I do if it doesn't work?
--------------------------------
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Here you will find our list of known bugs and pending feature
requests. If your problem is not listed in there, or in the FAQ, or
in the manuals, read the Feedback page to find out how to report
bugs to us. PLEASE read the Feedback page carefully: it is there to
save you time as well as us. Do not send us one-line bug reports
telling us `it doesn't work'.