Ok.. I knew I could change the dir in code. I thought that issuing the Property command would do the same..
----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 11:15 AM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: FileListBox Not Changing > > At 08:27 AM 5/13/2005, Mike Byerley wrote: > >>set debug on >>debug trace >>Property List1 DEFAULTDIRECTORY 'c:\temp' >>PROPERTY list1 REFRESHLIST 'TRUE' >>getproperty list1 defaultdirectory 'vstring' -- This contains 'c:\temp' >>pause 2 using .vstring >> >>The File ListBox display still has the contents of the startup directory >>not 'c:\temp' as expected. Am I missing something? This is the first >>time I have used this component. > > > Mike, > > The DEFAULTDIRECTORY option will ALWAYS remember the form startup > directory or the default directory defined in the FileListBox > Default Directory property. > > To achieve your goal, try the following commands as Custom EEP and > see what you get. > > -- Start > SET VAR vCurrentDir = (CVAL('CURRDIR')) > CD C:\TEMP > PROPERTY List1 REFRESHFILES 'TRUE' > RECALC VARIABLES > CD &vCurrentDir > RETURN > -- End > > By the click of a button, this routine will change the current directory > to C:\TEMP, let you view the list of file(s), allow you to open any, and > then switch back to the default/startup directory. > > Very Best R:egards, > > Razzak. >
