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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Standard File Dialog Hacking
Summary: How to get the current dir.
Message-ID: <414@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 8 Jun 89 18:36:51 GMT
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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(I have this sneaking feeling that this has been hashed over recently
and I didn't notice because I didn't know I needed to know...if so,
apologies.)

In the hook routine for SFPGetFile I can find out the name of the
currently highlighted file by looking at reply.fName.  So far, so
good.

My problem is that I don't know how to find out what directory it is
in.  No, reply.vRefNum doesn't seem to get updated until the user
clicks `Open'.  Sure, I *could* wait until then, but I want to find
out from within the hook routine--while the dialog is up.

I tried looking at myParmBlkPtr->ioVRefNum from my file filter
routine, but that info seems to track the actual volume and not the
HFS directory.

Any ideas?  Something that won't break with 7.0 Aliases, etc?  

If this isn't possible (nah, must be) could you folks at Apple (you
are listening, aren't you?) change SFPGetFile so it *will* update
reply.vRefNum on the fly?

Thanks.

Kent Borg
kent@lloyd.uucp
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