PuTTY bug wm-app

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summary: PuTTY should use WM_APP, not WM_USER
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
priority: medium: This should be fixed one day.
fixed-in: r6183 2005-08-11 (0.59) (0.60)

Ben Rudiak-Gould mentions:

>App-private window messages are supposed to be numbered from WM_APP. WM_USER
>is for window-class-specific messages. You should probably use WM_APP 
>instead of WM_XUSER, though I doubt it will matter in practice.

This should be a trivial change for someone who can test builds on Windows.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2005-11-26 13:47:59 +0000)