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From: JON@wehi.dn.mu.oz (Jon Eaves)
Newsgroups: aus.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Setting a Default Directory
Message-ID: <11319@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 14 Aug 90 13:27:52 GMT
References: <11240@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <BVYNVM@cs.swarthmore.edu>
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In article <BVYNVM@cs.swarthmore.edu>, jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) writes:
> JON@wehi.dn.mu.oz (Jon Eaves) writes:
[ My Stuff Hacked out ]
> begin
>  aStr:=GetString(stringID);
>  if aStr<>nil then 
>   begin
>    if SetVol(aStr^,0)=noErr then
>     begin
>     ...
>     end else error 
>   end else error
> end;
> 
> If this doesn't work, try taking a colon on the end of the STR in your
> resource file.
> 
> Perhaps you're being bitten by an assumption that got me the first time
> I tried this.  The default directory is *not* the directory which appears
> by default when you do SFGetFile or SFPutFile.  There are low-memory
> globals which deal with this;  ask for details if this is the case.
AAAARGH, This is what I want.  I want SFGetFile to open up on a specific
folder. I presumed (incorrectly obviously) that they opened up to the
default directory.  How do I set this up then?
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> |  nicholas jackiw  | jackiw%campus.swarthmore.edu@swarthmr.bitnet           |
> +-------------------+-VGP/MathDept/Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081--+
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