Re: File Open Initial Directory

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 07:24:27 -0700

Message-ID:

<845EC062-63E6-404B-B900-04D5CB8E4AAF@microsoft.com>

Mikel,

I do it like this:

  CFileDialog dlg(TRUE, NULL, _T("*.*"), OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT,
          _T("All Files (*.*)|*.*||"));
  CString csFile;

  dlg.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir = (LPCTSTR)m_csLastFolder; // Set to last
folder used

  dlg.m_ofn.lpstrTitle = _T("My Title");

   if (dlg.DoModal() == IDOK) {
        csFile = dlg.GetPathName();
        m_csLastFolder = GetFolderOnly(csFile); // Save folder only for next
time we get here
   }

I typically write the folders for various types to the registry so the
program can remember where the user went last time the program was run.

Tom

"Mikel" <mikel.luri@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:56a81fa7-48d9-45f8-8584-aca7bec74e41@v32g2000prd.googlegroups.com...

Hi,
I have a simple question: How does an application choose the initial
directory to open when the user selects File->Open?

I mean, when first run, the application usually opens the File Open
dialog in the "My Documents" folder, but the next time, it will open
in the last folder used by that application.

How does the application know which folder was last used? I thought it
could be from the MRU files, but I deleted them from the registry and
my application still knows which was the last folder used.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Mikel

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