Re: Making CFileDialog Forget Directoy Change

From:

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:56:36 -0700

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I typically remember the folders for files my programs access in variables
like m_csLastBrowseFolder, m_csLastLabelFolder, m_csLastDocumentFolder, etc.
Then I can set them quickly using the method Ali suggested. I usually only
do this for new files. If there is a path already set I go to that one
instead:

Something like this:

CFileDialog FileDlg(FALSE, _T(""), csMyFile,OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,
        _T("My files (*.mfl)|*.mfl|All Files (*.*)|*.*||));

CString folder = GetFolderOnly(csMyFile);
if(!folder.IsEmpty())
    FileDlg.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir = folder;
else
    FileDlg.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir = m_csLastMyFiles;

Tom

"Fish in a Barrel" <aaron.m.johnson@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155912128.645535.235410@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

Is there a way to make the file dialog not update the stored initial
directory?

There are tertiary files that my users occasionally will need to
access, but I don't want that to muck up the initial location of the
file dialog.