From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T10:03:31+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby or wxRuby?

Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Lothar Scholz:
> 
>> dvn> because of the file dialog used, which doesn't remember the last 
>> location
>> dvn> visited, for example.
>>
>> No toolkit does this as it is the task of the GUI application itself,
>> otherwise different open dialogs would show the same directory. So you
>> must blame FreeRIDE here.
> 
> 
>    Windows (2000/XP) remembers the directory on behalf of the 
> application when using the standard file open and save dialogs. This is 
> stored in the registry keyed on the application name in
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\LastVisitedMRU 

But FreeRIDE uses FXRuby/Fox, and Fox does not use the Windows standard 
dialog. Therefore FreeRIDE would have to do this itself.

Curt