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- From: fixer@faxcsl.dcrt.nih.gov (Chris Clinging Desperately Tate)
- Subject: Re: SFGetFile's directory after an Open Event
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.153640.5291@alw.nih.gov>
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- Reply-To: fixer@faxcsl.dcrt.nih.gov
- Organization: Computer Systems Laboratory, DCRT, NIH
- References: <1993Jan4.190815.5881@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1993Jan4.205533.25405@kth.se> <76105@apple.apple.COM>,<1993Jan5.135459.8834@cujo.curtin.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:36:40 GMT
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- Personally, I prefer to have the Standard File directory set when I open a
- file; imagine the following (common, at least in my experience) scenario:
-
- Drag a file to ResEdit
- In ResEdit, copy a few resources to the clipboard
- Again in ResEdit, select "File/New"
-
- ResEdit hasn't changed the "default" directory, so the Standard File box pops
- up pointing to ResEdit's application folder, which I personally find pretty
- useless.
-
- I'd imagine that when opening a document, altering it, and choosing "Save
- As...", it's more common to place the new document based on where the original
- was, not on where the application resides. It'd be possible to maintain a
- record of each open document resides, and monkey with the SF globals to point
- to the appropriate folders depending on which doc is being "Save As..."'d, but
- that seems a bit too intrusive....
-
- It seems this is a tricky question. For example (just to play devil's advocate
- a bit), should the app redirect the SF globals at every 'odoc', or just for
- documents that were double-clicked to launch the app? If you change it at
- every 'odoc,' you interfere with people who want to open multiple documents in
- succession, but save them all to the same place. If you just change it at
- startup, you take care of that problem, but inconvenience people who want to
- save modified documents in the same locations as the originals!
-
- Messy.
-
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