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

[Greg Chicares]

On 2009-06-17 11:46Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:52:14 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> GC> On 2009-05-15 02:38Z, Greg Chicares wrote:
> GC> > On 2009-04-01 13:31Z, Greg Chicares wrote:
> GC> >> On 2009-03-27 23:30Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> GC> >>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:17:20 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> GC> >>> 
> GC> >>> GC> To reproduce:
> GC> >>> GC>   load lmi on msw [FWIW, I'm using msw 'xp']
> GC> >>> GC>   File | Open
> GC> >>> GC> Examine the "Look in:" directory shown at the top of the dialog.
> GC> >>> GC> 
> GC> >>> GC> With wx-2.8.10 and prior versions, this apparently is set to the
> GC> >> 
> GC> >> [...it was set to some directory that msw regarded as appropriate;
> GC> >> but wx trunk uses "My Documents" instead...]
> GC> > [...]
> GC> >>>  Second solution would be to make wx a bit smarter with its auto
> GC> >>> determination of the last directory and use the most recent file in
> GC> >>> wxFileHistory and only fall back to "My Documents" if the history is 
> empty.
> GC> >>> This seems a bit more fragile but still should typically work very 
> well. So
> GC> >>> if you don't see any objections to it, I'll implement this behaviour 
> in wx
> GC> >>> itself.
> GC> >> 
> GC> >> Yes, I think that's a really good idea.
> GC> > 
> GC> > Did this change make it into wx svn trunk? With release candidate three,
> GC> > I still see the "My Documents" behavior.
> GC> 
> GC> BTW, I still see the same issue with wx-2.9.0 release candidate four.
> 
>  Sorry about this, I simply never did this so far... The following patch
> seems to work for me:
[...snip patch...]
> and I've committed it to both svn trunk and 2.9 branch so it will appear in
> the final 2.9.0 release.

Works fine for me now, using release candidate six:
  ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.0-RC6/wxWidgets-2.9.0-RC6.tar.bz2
BTW, I see no new compiler diagnostics with RC6 and MinGW gcc-3.4.5 .