Last used Directory remember failure

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Hmm...not sure if this is in the correct bug sub-section...but it does not seem to have enough severity to go under core.

 

Anyways in the past if you load a game from a directory and it loads fine and you play the game for a while then load another game and play that etc. at the end of it all VBA remembers the directory you were last in. So the next time you go to load a GBA game (an not one from the most recent list) then it will start up from that last directory used (there is also an ini entry to that effect).

 

However it seems on SVN compile 461 this somehow does not happen propperly as while it does remember the directory during gaming, once the emulator has been closed and then started again, it always starts up from it's own directory instead of the last used one.

There's also no entry in the ini saying where the last directory was.

 

Sorry if this has been fixed but as the latest SVN compile 470 does not work on my single core system as has already been said in it's release thread so I am not able to check that it has been.

[spacy51]

If I get you right, you want VBA to always begin at the directory last used instead of the directory specified in the "Directories" dialog?

 

The current implementation isn't really a bug, but planned behaviour. However, I could add a switch to either use the last dir (per game system) or use the standard dir (per game system).

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Well it's not neccessarily only what I want...its also what VBA used to do, but yes you are correct.

 

I am used to me loading a game in let's say my Golden Sun folder and then playing it for a while and then closing the emulator that VBA will remember that directory. Then the next time it starts it will start from the Golden Sun folder again, then if I maybe load Golden Sun 2 from my Golden Sun 2 folder and close the emu after playing it for a while, that that then becomes the folder it last used.

 

I was not aware of any directories dialog or that it was planned behaviour...so yes as you say a switch might be a good idea, possibly it should have last directory as the default option though as others who convert from VBA to VBA-M like me may also get confused.

[spacy51]

I didn't think of your usage scenario of per-game save files up until now, but it sounds reasonable, so I will add that switch soon.

[spacy51]

I just added that option to the directories dialog. SVN479. It will be available in the next binary release. Please tell me if there are any bugs or strange behaviour.

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Thanks, I will have a looksee then.

[spacy51]

http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=93

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Thanks for the heads up Spacy.