From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2003-05-31T16:36:20+09:00
Subject: Re: VisualuRuby openFilename starting directory


"John Johnson" <jj5412@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to set the directory for a Swin::CommonDialog.openFilename()
> call? For example, I might want to set the directory to the last directory
> a person used, using a value I saved.
>
> I'm looking at the swin source, and don't see anything obvious.
>
> Thanks,
>   JJ
>
>

Last I looked, it was not implemented.

You can do -

  Dir.chdir('D:\somedir\orother')

before the call to Swin::CommonDialog.openFilename()
if it's not too disruptive.

Also, there's

  cwd = Dir.getwd
  Dir.chdir('D:\somedir\orother')
  (-call to Swin-)
  Dir.chdir(cwd)

if you need to preserve the current working directory
over the call (although I never know what it's set to).


daz