[PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 29, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:57 -0700, Rich E wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         it does and it has been discussed multiple times on this  
>> list:
>>         sending a command to the [shell] will start a new process
>>         (shell), run
>>         the command and quit. like it should be, child processes do
>>         not modify
>>         parent processes and siblings.
>>
>> Ah.  This makes sense.
>>
>>
>>         i am not sure what you would like to achieve with [pwd] or
>>         [cd]
>>         that is: if you could manage with [pwd] and [cd], why can't
>>         you do so
>>         with the current absolute/relative path in [openpanel]?
>>
>> I was just looking for a quick hack to get my patches working that  
>> try
>> to open up a specific directory using [openpanel].  But I guess the
>> real solution is making [openpanel]/[savepanel] relative to the patch
>> it they live in.  I don't really know how this would work for an
>> [openpanel]/[savepanel] within an abstraction.
>
> i agree with you, that this new feature of [openpanel] and [savepanel]
> is kind of bogus the way it is implemented now. in so many cases you
> rather would want to set a path relative to the patch instead of
> relative to pd start location.
>
> i personally think, that [[open][save]panel]s within abstractions  
> should
> behave accordingly: path should be relative to the file location (the
> path that is written in the window title, when you open the window).
>
> the same goes for the 'open' message to pd: i can't think of a good
> reason for the actual behaviour. relative to the patch would make much
> more sense, IMO.
>
> i stop saying this over and over again, as soon as someone comes up  
> with
> a really good explanation for the current implementation(sorry for  
> being
> so strongheaded).

I also think the default should be relative to the patch.  I am not  
quite sure now to handle abstractions, that's worth discussing more.   
I don't have time to work on it now, but if someone posts a bug in  
the tracker (or feature request, if you think that's better), I'll  
try my hand at it later.

It's always useful to include a link to web archive to related  
discussions like this in the bug tracker.

On a related note, for this release, I made Save As default to the  
Home folder (~/), what do people think about that?

.hc


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