Default directory in wx.FileDialog, using Windows7

[Raphael Mayoraz]

Hello,

I'm having a problem with the default directory of a wx.FileDialog when
being on Windows7.
Let's say you are in a directory C:\myDir that has a sub-directory 'mySub'.
I run the dialog using os.getcwd() as the default directory argument.
The first time is open the dialog, I'm proprely in C:\myDir. Now, in the
dialog, I go to C:\myDir\mySub and select a file there.
Quit the application, run it again from C:\myDir, open the file dialog
again, the default directory is now C:\myDir\mySub, even though
os.getcwd() is passed as the directory argument (and os.getcwd()
properly returns C:\myDir). It looks like the last visited directory is
'recorded' in the Windows7 file dialog and there is no way to overwrite it.

I also tried to use dlg.SetDirectory(os.getcwd()) without success.

Thanks.

Raphael

[Mike Driscoll]

Hi,

If you print out os.getcwd(), does it return what you expect?
Personally, I use a class attribute to store my last path. In the
init, I do something like this:

self.currentPath = r'C:\myDir'

Then in the FileDialog, I would reset it as necessary when the user
pressed the dialog's OK button:

self.currentPath = dlg.GetPath()

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Mike Driscoll

Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org

[Raphael Mayoraz]

Well, os.getcwd() remains the same even after the dialog is closed. In
my example, it returns

'C:\myDir'

all the time, even if the file dialog is opened in

'C:\myDir\mySub'

It looks like keeping track of the last visited directory from an
application is recorded in the application registry and the directory
argument of the wx.FileDialog constructor cannot overwrite it.

Raphael

[Robin Dunn]

What style flags are you passing to wx.FileDialog?

--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org

[Mike Driscoll]

As I recall, os.getcwd() gets it path from the location that the
script is running from. If you need to change it, then call
os.chdir(dlg.GetPath())

- Mike

[Raphael Mayoraz]

I'm using wx.OPEN. As you pointing to style flags, I just tried
wx.FD_OPEN and wx.FD_CHANGE_DIR (both together), but this didn't make
SetDirectory() work either.

Raphael

[Robin Dunn]

Ok, create a ticket for it with the component set to wxMSW.