Export locations

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Jan 28 11:28:09 EST 2010


Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> On 28/01/2010 15:34, Phil Jimmieson wrote:
>> Hi Richmond,
>> After I've saved a document I write a little text file to the user's 
>> preferences folder - the text file contains the last save path. Just 
>> before I put up a save box in my program, I test to see if that little 
>> text file exists. If it does, I read it in and use the path it 
>> contains as the location to save to. If it doesn't exist I pick a 
>> reasonable default (the user's documents folder). This works ok for me 
>> (on Windows and Mac OS X).
>>
>>
>>    
> Lovely job!

Or if you don't need a permanent record, just set a custom property. Or 
set the defaultfolder.

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