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  1. Oct 15th, 2000, 04:24 PM #1
    VitalyB
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    Thing thing pisses me off.
    Every time I do OPEN/SAVE in Visual Basic it shows me the default Visual Basic directory. I save all my files in a special directory that is not even in the same harddisc.

    Now, I know I can reinstall Visual Basic and move it to a new directory and so on but is there a way just to change the default Open/Save dir to something else?
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  2. Oct 15th, 2000, 05:54 PM #2
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    Well, i made a link from my vb dir named it "go here" pointing at my project dir
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  3. Oct 15th, 2000, 06:07 PM #3
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    Can you be more specific Kedaman? VitalyB, it is bugging the hell out of me too.
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    I did that too yet it is a headache in saving - When I want to save the a file in Visual Basic and I click on the link to go to the right dir it
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  6. Oct 15th, 2000, 06:19 PM #5
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    He means making a shortcut to the folder you're keeping you projects in, in the default Vb folder.
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  7. Oct 15th, 2000, 07:04 PM #6
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    Well, i really hate that myself, and i have no solution, damn i should look it up in registry some day and look if theres something like "default directory" under the vb keys.
    ANyway a tip to both of you and others:
    When you want to save a module for instance, you have named the module mThisModuleHasAVeryLongNameSoIHateWritingThisAgainWhenClickingThatShortcutClearsIt

    and you want to save it with the same name

    mThisModuleHasAVeryLongNameSoIHateWritingThisAgainWhenClickingThatShortcutClearsIt.bas

    So just Ctrl-X it, click the link and Ctrl-V it and voila! YOu just go save the string.

    Well, that's not too good yet, but it's something.
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    reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
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