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Jack Kelly
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Re: LB Booster version 3.09 released
« Reply #5 on: Sep 9th, 2017, 1:18pm » |
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I always check to see what happens when I 'print DefaultDir$' immediately after starting LBB from the shortcut. In my opinion it should always report the 'Start in' folder of the shortcut. I thought you had made this change in version 3.08, but 3.09 still reports the Windows Temp folder.
I know you have told me many reasons why this was impossible or difficult in LBB, but I remain hopeful.
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Richard Russell
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Re: LB Booster version 3.09 released
« Reply #6 on: Sep 9th, 2017, 5:04pm » |
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on Sep 9th, 2017, 1:18pm, Jack Kelly wrote:| In my opinion DefaultDir$ should always report the 'Start in' folder of the shortcut. |
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It does, of course, when the shortcut points to a compiled LB program. DefaultDir$ refers to the 'current directory' when the compiled program (i.e. the EXE file) is run. If it's run from a shortcut it will be the 'Start in' property. If not, it will often be the directory from which the EXE was launched.
If you are running a BASIC program from the LBB IDE the 'start in' property of the shortcut has no meaning since it will be the same for every BASIC program you run! In that case LBB makes the best guess it can as to the 'proper' DefaultDir$, which is the folder in which the BASIC program itself resides. For example this makes the sample programs supplied with Liberty BASIC 4 work correctly.
Quote:| I thought you had made this change in version 3.08, but 3.09 still reports the Windows Temp folder. |
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I don't recollect the issue having been raised previously, but if it was I no doubt gave the same answer. LBB is working as designed, which is to set DefaultDir$ 'correctly' for compiled programs and to make an 'intelligent guess' as to the wanted DefaultDir$ when programs are run from the IDE.
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net2014
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Re: LB Booster version 3.09 released
« Reply #7 on: Sep 15th, 2017, 4:59pm » |
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Richard, thanks for your continued support. Still running LBB in linux/wine, remembering to manually create the 'lib' folder! Everything working fine. 
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CirothUngol
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Re: LB Booster version 3.09 released
« Reply #8 on: Oct 7th, 2017, 02:08am » |
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Wow, thanks for the update... it's almost a custom 'me' version! ^_^
Now the little tree utility should be fully capable, and I didn't even have to do anything. Thanks again for continuing to update my favorite programming environment; why more people don't use this very clever app, I'll never know.
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