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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: SFGetFile's directory after an Open Event
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.192251.24186@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: russells@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Street)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:22:51 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.190815.5881@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1993Jan4.205533.25405@kth.se>
- <76105@apple.apple.COM>,<1993Jan5.135459.8834@cujo.curtin.edu.au> <1993Jan5.153640.5291@alw.nih.gov>
- Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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- fixer@faxcsl.dcrt.nih.gov (Chris Clinging Desperately Tate) writes:
-
- >Personally, I prefer to have the Standard File directory set when I open a
- >file ...
-
- So do I! I often want to use more than one application at once and get
- (um) annoyed when some of them don't adjust the SF dialog and the
- others don't. Part of this could be the "keyboard vs mouse" debate.
- As a touch typist I get annoyed when I have to take my hands off the
- keyboard to do something with the simple with the mouse -- an opening
- files in various folders over a disk is one of them.
-
- Senario: I find deeply nested folder X in the Finder, and want to edit
- three files in it -- one at a time. I double click file #1, edit it,
- close the document all without taking hands off the keyboard. I then
- select Open (using Cmd-O): if the app has changed the SF directory I
- can select file #2 quickly and easily. If the app has not I either
- have to dig up X again or go back to the Finder (using the mouse).
-
- One answer here is that you put the SF dialog to the same directory as
- the file currently open :) (or the last place seen if no document is
- open, assuming it still exists).
-
- >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!
-
- "You can please [fool] some of the people all of the time ..."
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------
- Russell Street (russells@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz)
-
- "If vandals kidnapp you look for finger prints on or about
- your person -- that's a crime stopper."
-
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