When I first posted about this, it was about the recently new ability to do this:

[symbol somedir( | [openpanel]

But this only works if "somedir" is at "$HOME/somedir" on linux and "/usr/blahblah/pdir/somedir" on mac. So if my directly layout is something like "~/patches/somedir", I have to explicitly write in the message to [openpanel] "/home/myname/patches/somedir". This will only work on my directly layout, so if it is a patch I'm going to share, I cannot use this new feature (might I add I really like the feature).

I was only suggesting that [openpanel]/[savepanel]'s symbol argument has the patch's current directory appended to it, unless the "~" sign is used for home, or a full path is given. I think, as Martin suggested, this is all handled internally with canvas_getdir() and open_via_path().

Regarding the normal operation of [openpanel]/[savepanel], i.e. sending it a bang, I think it would be nice if the last directory navigated to is remembered, else the $HOME.

-rich

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Frank Barknecht <fb...@footils.org> wrote: Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

The HOME directory already is the default directory on Linux with Gnome/KDE/Blackbox or whatever, as it's the working directory when starting Pd from the manager. No need for any changes AFAIK.

I'm the wrong person to comment on MS-Windows or Mac, as I don't use these and don't care even the teeny-tiniest bit about what happens to Pd on these systems, but please leave it on Linux as it is the standard here. All other apps like Vim, Emacs, Gimp, Firefox use the `pwd` as default and I can't see why Pd should behave differently.

If you want to confirm this yourself, try the following with the gimp:

$ cd /tmp $ gimp &

Then make a new file, select "Save" and it will give you "/tmp" as first directory choice.

Ciao