This one oughta be easy. I'd prefer that the assembler & emulator either remember the most recently used file path between invocations or just default to the directory the executable's in; or maybe have a user-preference selection or even a command-line option. I don't ever expect to do development work out of "My Documents", which it defaults to now.

Seems to me there's an easy way to make a program use the directory specified by the "start in:" field of its shortcut, but I can't remember the details at the moment.

They do, at least all the times I've used them. I'm using the latest version, installed from the .zip file (not the executable-with-installer version) on both Win98 and WinXP.


Just put the path, in quotes if there are spaces in the names, in the "start in:" field, e.g.



Lee.

Did that. I installed from the .zip -- just extracted to a new folder and manually set up the shortcuts, including the "start in", which is:
Doesn't work for me, but I'm using Win98SE and I seem to recall that XP handles default directories differently than 9x. But yours works with 98 as well? Hmm. I don't recall any user settings that would affect this.

Are you saying your installations default to the "start in" directory, or to the MRU directory? Perhaps I was unclear. Once I've navigated to the desired directory, the programs do remember it until closed. But when restarted, they go back to "My Documents".

I went and checked the behaviour on my Win98SE machine and when started they both open in the "start in" directory whatever directory they were in.

One thing could be I don't have a "My Documents" folder under Win98. I got so fed up of programs defaulting there that I nuked it and all reference to it, not that I recommend doing this.

Lee.

I'm gonna have to think about that a bit... [insert "startled" emoticon here]

Revisiting an old issue:

I'm using Windows 7 now. The "start in" works as it should, for opening source files in the editor. Is there a way to get the editor to use a default directory, or a default root path, for INCLUDE?

Thanks.

The included file may specify the path:

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