How to save current path for NSOpenPanel and NSSavePanel

[Duncan Champney]

I posted this question back in March, and still don't have a solution  
for it, so I am going to ask again.

My application is document based, and does the normal file load/save,  
with little custom code from me.

I also have the option to load and save "color scheme" files, which  
are applied to the current document.

When the user asks to load a color scheme file, I create an  
NSOpenPanel and call runModalForDirectory, pointing it a directory  
that contains a list of color scheme files, and specifying only the  
type of file I want the user to select.

The problem has to do with the default path used for opening/saving  
documents. I would like loading/saving color scheme files to take  
place in my special color schemes directory, without disturbing the  
directory the user last used to load/save a document.

After the user loads/saves a color scheme file, the next time they  
try to load or save a document, the NSOpenPanel or NSSavePanel starts  
out in my color schemes directory instead of remembering the last  
place the user loaded/saved a file.

I tried using the NSFileManager's currentDirectoryPath to save the  
current directory before invoking my load or save panel, and then  
restoring the current directory with changeCurrentDirectoryPath, but  
I gather the NSOpenPanel does not use the current directory as the  
starting point for file loads.

Since my last post I discovered that the shared  
NSDocumentController's method currentDirectory gives me half of the  
solution, but only half. it would let me find out the current  
directory that the document controller will use for a document  
NSOpenPanel or NSSavePanel. However, I need an equivalent  
NSDocumentController -setCurrentDirectory call that would let me  
change the current directory, and there does not appear to be such a  
call.

For document loads/saves, the NSDocumentController invokes  
NSOpenPanel and NSSavePanel in response to my file menu's open and  
save menu commands (which send the normal nil targeted actions  
openDocument and saveDocument)

I've dug through the electronic documentation at length, and poured  
through several print cocoa programming guides, but can't figure out  
how to do this.

Can somebody help? Thanks in advance.



Duncan C