From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T13:04:39+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby or wxRuby?

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> 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

Sorta going off on a tangent here, as usual, but after working with
Fox's registry for a while I went off and wrote a more ruby-oriented
library for saving "preferences". Naturally, it uses yaml, and the
preferences persist between program invocations and not just method
invocations. Naturally, it's called "preferences". It's at:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/preferences/

I wrote it to use with FXRuby, but there's nothing particularly
fox-bound about it, except for the version of the four-split.rb example
that remembers splitter and window positions. It works just fine to
remember directories in FXFileDialogs and their ilk.

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