Re: [lmi] wxmsw-2.9 regression: default directory for File | Open

[Greg Chicares]

On 2009-05-15 02:38Z, Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2009-04-01 13:31Z, Greg Chicares wrote:
>> On 2009-03-27 23:30Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:17:20 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> GC> To reproduce:
>>> GC>   load lmi on msw [FWIW, I'm using msw 'xp']
>>> GC>   File | Open
>>> GC> Examine the "Look in:" directory shown at the top of the dialog.
>>> GC> 
>>> GC> With wx-2.8.10 and prior versions, this apparently is set to the
>> 
>> [...it was set to some directory that msw regarded as appropriate;
>> but wx trunk uses "My Documents" instead...]
> [...]
>>>  Second solution would be to make wx a bit smarter with its auto
>>> determination of the last directory and use the most recent file in
>>> wxFileHistory and only fall back to "My Documents" if the history is empty.
>>> This seems a bit more fragile but still should typically work very well. So
>>> if you don't see any objections to it, I'll implement this behaviour in wx
>>> itself.
>> 
>> Yes, I think that's a really good idea.
> 
> Did this change make it into wx svn trunk? With release candidate three,
> I still see the "My Documents" behavior.

BTW, I still see the same issue with wx-2.9.0 release candidate four.