Remembering previously used folder.
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Is there a way to call a file requester that will either bring the last directory you were in, or start in the directory you send it? It's hugely infuriating to deal with large number of files and having to navigate to the directory every time. |
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err.. remember the path in a string, and use ChangeDir command before the filerequester?ChangeDir "d:\Muppetshow\" gonzo=RequestFile("load","*") WaitKey() End |
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Nope, nothing happens when I do that. It's still obsessed with the root directory. |
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that's odd! Try this then.. here (v1.34) it works fine.. app=CreateWindow("dirtest",32,32,128,128) button=CreateButton("RequestFile",16,8,96,24,app) Repeat WaitEvent() If EventID()=$803 quit=True If EventID()=$401 file$=RequestFile("load..") path$=cutfilename(file$) DebugLog path$ ChangeDir path$ EndIf Until quit End Function cutfilename$(file$) For t=Len(file$) To 0 Step -1 If Mid$(file$,t,1)="\" Exit Next Return Left$(file$,t) End Function by the way :) For t=Len(file$) To 0 Step -1 should it go down to 0 or 1 ? |
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Thanks for the code man, but still no luck. I had already tested it to see if the dir was being set and Blitz as far as loading things by hand (ie LoadImage), it fine. But filerequest is still desperate to be in the root. I was wondering if it's a windows thing, as I have a handful of non blitz applications that never remember the last used dir, but I assumed that was lazy coding as some do remember it. |
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odd...! guess this is where my suggestions end.. what version of B+ do you use? |
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1.35, I guess I could uninstall I try the previous release. |
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I've bad news for ya... I installed 1.35 ..(I didn't yet because of the winning horse principle :) and the app I did works fine. So, either 1 the gods don't like you, 2 there's something wrong with your system, or 3 you encountered a nice little bug in B+ ! .. anyone else here with suggestions? |
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CS_TBL Are you testing that with a compiled exe ? okee |
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Just tested that... works too. On my system (athlon2ghz/256mb/98se/Blitsplus v1.34/v1.35), the app is fully functional..! |
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It don't work on WinME either, even using a system ChangeDir is ignored. I've gone down the C route for all requesters anyhow, since you can load them, and retrieve what you want. |
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No I don't think it's an ME thing, my flatmate (who is on the same network as me) has no problems with this and is running the same crappy OS. I guess it's a windows thing, but google reveals nothing on the subject and a tech forum I frequent has nothing on it. Apparently I've discovered a unique bug so I'll go for CS_TBL's option 1, replacing the word God, with Microsoft. Just "putting up with it" is not an acceptable solution for me, I'll guess I'll hack together a custom file requester. DAMN YOU MICROSOFT, DAMN YOU TO HELL. |
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yeah we're all very happy with M$ indeed :) tho it's kinda radical, you might want to try a re-install of windows.. Maybe your current windows installation is too old and too messed-up :) btw.. since I'm kinda lazy in reading manuals, it seems you can use the 'CurrentDir' command instead of my cutfilename(file$) function. (tho, writing such a function is always good exercise ofcourse) Maybe it's a windows bug.. on the other hand, blitz+ is claimed to work on all windows platforms.. maybe it's something that *can* be fixed in B+ by bypassing the possible M$ bug .. dunno about that. |
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How do you know it's a Windows bug? If it were, it seems one should be able to reproduce it on similar setups. Perhaps there are different settings that you're not thinking about. Incidentally, it works fine on my XP system. |
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I have run the same program on a different machine with the same OS. It worked fine on the other machine. And it was the same version of B+ both times, so that makes windows a more likely culprit (same version blitz on both machines, and a lot more can be different about Windows) Also there are a few non blitz programs on my machine that forget their directory (the ones that use the same style of requester as Blitz, oddly enough) Anyway it's a moot point as I've written my own requester where you can send default path strings (and files for saving), so suck on that Microsoft you beta-whoring sons of dogs. I liked the functionality a lot of amiga programs had, where upon accessing different filetypes, it could remember the default path for each filetype (i.e. Dpaint had remembered the paths for Images, Brushes and Anim's all seperately) If anyone feels they could make use of the code, post a heads up on this topic and I'll post it in the code archives. Oh, and got to say I'm becoming more and more impressed with Blitz+. Listboxes are great. |
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Sorry to bump this out of antiquity. I've just come up against this problem. No matter what I do the file requester always go to "My Documents". Anyone have a workaround? Thanks! |
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This is fixed in v1.39, using the new 4th parameter. |
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Oh yeah, missed that. Ta. /embarrassed |
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The manual,even v1.39 of it, only list 3 parameters. |
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I'm using 1.40 and the fourth parameter is completely ignored. It still goes back to my documents no matter what. |
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Looks like it was broken again in v1.40. :/ |