[Gambas-user] Setting path in Dialog

[T Lee Davidson]

I believe the tilde does not work as a shortcut for user's home directory.

You should probably use: Dialog.Path = User.Home &/ "Documents/ED/NEC Antenna Files/"


On 04/27/2016 08:34 PM, Ed & Clare Kelm wrote:
> I have the same problem as Rolf.  (2016-01-19 17:11:18)
>
> Setting dialog.path does not work.  Instead, the resulting path is
> always the location of the project.
>
> My project is located in ~/Documents/Gambas Projects/EDNEC/
>
> In the project is this code snippet:
>
> **********
> Dialog.Path = "~/Documents/ED/NEC Antenna Files/"
> Dialog.Title = "Select an Antenna File to Open"
> Dialog.Filter = ["*.txt; *.TXT", "Text Files", "*.NEC", "NEC Input Files"]
>
> Print Dialog.Path
>
> If Dialog.OpenFile() Then Return
> **********
>
> When it executes, the correct path is printed to the IDE, the correct
> title appears on the Open dialog, and the correct filter appears in the
> Open dialog.  However, the path in the Open dialog is ~/Documents/Gambas
> Projects/EDNEC/.
>
> I am using:
>
> Gambas 3.8.4
> Xubuntu 14.04
>
> Any help for this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ed K.

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