simon-git: putty (pre-0.75): Simon Tatham
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Thu Apr 22 20:16:31 BST 2021
TL;DR:
16a59b59 winpgnt: say 'click to focus' in async passphrase prompt.
f5a962fb winpgnt: add a help button to async passphrase prompt.
Repository: https://git.tartarus.org/simon/putty.git
On the web: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git
Branch updated: pre-0.75
Committer: Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date: 2021-04-22 20:16:31
commit 16a59b5972f6bc108876162ce389668d66a0166a
web diff https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=16a59b5972f6bc108876162ce389668d66a0166a;hp=15ca55c5c31096453334cb78d6f82eb83d6fc1b9
Author: Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 19:47:13 2021 +0100
winpgnt: say 'click to focus' in async passphrase prompt.
I continue to believe that there's nothing I can (or should) do about
the fact that on Windows, Pageant's async passphrase prompt dialog box
doesn't automatically get the input focus when it pops up in response
to a request received via invisible IPC.
However, one thing I can do is add some text to the box that _warns_
people about it, so that at least there's some kind of suggestion that
you should get into the habit of clicking on the passphrase prompt
before typing your passphrase into it.
(I would be less concerned about all of this if it weren't for the
fact that focus is surprisingly non-obvious on Windows 10, at least on
the machine I have here. When the window doesn't have focus, the title
bar has the same background colour, and only the text is fainter. And
perhaps more confusingly, the cursor in the edit box still flashes!
That fooled _me_ a few times to begin with.)
windows/pageant-rc.h | 3 ++-
windows/pageant.rc | 12 +++++++-----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
commit f5a962fb344ce284c6346c77b7f800d0731ac675
web diff https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=f5a962fb344ce284c6346c77b7f800d0731ac675;hp=16a59b5972f6bc108876162ce389668d66a0166a
Author: Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 19:58:53 2021 +0100
winpgnt: add a help button to async passphrase prompt.
Suggested by Jacob: if this dialog box is going to pop up
_unexpectedly_ - perhaps when people have momentarily forgotten
they're even running Pageant, or at least forgotten they added a key
encrypted,, or maybe haven't found out yet that their IT installed it
- then it could usefully come with a help button that pops up further
explanation of what the dialog box means, and from which you can find
your way to the rest of the help.
doc/pageant.but | 2 +-
windows/pageant.rc | 5 +++--
windows/winpgnt.c | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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