setAsCurrentWorkingDirectory() question

MacOSX and iOS
1

I’m trying to set my FileChooser object to open in the same directory that it used the last time I opened a file,
using getCurrentWorkingDirectory() thus:

[code]FileChooser theFileChooser (“Please select file you want to open…”,
File::getCurrentWorkingDirectory());

bool fileSelected = theFileChooser.browseForFileToOpen();

if (fileSelected){

	File	theFile (theFileChooser.getResult());
	theFile.getParentDirectory().setAsCurrentWorkingDirectory();

}
[/code]

But this doesn’t seem to be working. I’m sure I’m just using this call incorrectly, but what’s the right way to do this?

2

It probably should work, but it’s a dreadful way to do it! Just store the last file in a File object somewhere, there’s no need to use the CWD as a place to store it!

3

That’s a fine suggestion. I was trying to solve the problem in such a way that the FileChooser would open in a useful location across runs of my application, and have the system hold onto that information, rather than me.

4

How did you expect that to work?? The CWD is held by the shell, it’s not a global setting! (And if it was a global, that’d make your idea even more insane!!)

5

OK, granted, that was a näive thing to postulate.

I was thinking that the OS was holding on to the last location used in an Open dialog,
but now I see it varies by application, and applications are holding on to that location
on their own. I’ll do the same.