Lindows - defaultfolder on startup

John Rule johnrule at rcsprogramming.com
Tue Sep 14 07:53:45 EDT 2004


I get the same behavior in RedHat 9...it's a Linux issue I believe.

I am parsing the long id of the mainStack for the current application path. 
This is actually a more reliable practice than defaultFolder IMO.

JR


> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:30:29 -0700
> From: Mark Talluto <userev at canelasoftware.com>
> Subject: Lindows - defaultfolder on startup
> To: Revolution use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> From the docs:
>
> When you start up the application, the defaultFolder is set to the
> folder containing the application. If you're using the development
> environment, this is the folder containing Revolution; if you're using
> a standalone application, this is the folder containing that
> standalone. (On OS X systems, the defaultFolder is set to the folder
> that contains the application bundle.)
>
> I have found that the defaultfoder my standalones at startup on Lindows
> are at /root.  Just want to confirm this with you all before BZing
> this.  These same standalones on Win and Mac agree with the docs.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Mark Talluto
> http://www.canelasoftware.com



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