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[Solved] Lazarus - OpenDialog.initialDir not working?
Delphi, Lazarus, Free Pascal
(@hans)
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June 17, 2014 5:37 AM
I ran into this issue when trying to force OpenDialog to go to a specific directory by setting the "InitialDir" property, only to find out that the last character of the path must have a slash ....
Example (MacOS X):
The following code examples do NOT work when calling OpenDialog.Execute right after setting the initialdir.
OpenDialog.InitialDir:=ExpandFileName('~/Desktop');
OpenDialog.InitialDir:='/Users';
The following code however DOES work:
OpenDialog.InitialDir:=ExpandFileName('~/Desktop')+'/';
OpenDialog.InitialDir:='/Users/';