Closed stirlingstout closed 5 days ago
richardpawson
commented
3 weeks ago We really have very little control over this process - it is managed by the browser.
I also think that school-level use of data files is generally quite simple - in a single session you are likely to be dealing with one file only, typically.
stirlingstout
commented
3 weeks ago I'm curious as to why the Load 'remembers' and the file open doesn't. Presumably it's much the same Javascript code.
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We really have very little control over this process - it is managed by the browser.
I also think that school-level use of data files is generally quite simple
- in a single session you are likely to be dealing with one file only, typically.
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richardpawson
commented
5 days ago Fixed as part of #841
If I have saved an Elan program in a directory, then go to load it, the directory where I saved it is the default in the Open dialog. If I load again then the same default is used.
When I open a file for reading, then open another file, the directory I've navigated to for the first file isn't the default for the second Open dialog, so I may have to navigate the filesystem again to find it. The default seems always to be My Documents.
I realise, having done some research, that all the file input/output is hedged around with security concerns and hence restrictions, but I'm worried that always showing a dialog when a student does a file open (whether for reading or writing) is going to be another 'problem' for teachers, and anything that we can do to alleviate this would help Elan take-up.
I did have a thought about an emulated filesystem where a single file could keep track of multiple files. You'd still have to select the file system file though, both for reading and writing that file.