PATH for Open File dialog?

[sroberts]

Is there any way to set up UE to search through a defined path in the Open File dialog? For example, if I have a path such as .:src:src/inc, I'd like UE to look in ".", then "src", then "src/inc" for the file.

Thanks,
Steve

[Mofi]

So you want to specify what is the current working directory for UltraEdit?

There are several options how UltraEdit should handle the current working directory. See

Advanced - Configuration - File Handling - Load
Advanced - Configuration - Directories

and read the help for these 2 configuration dialogs.

And when a project is open, the specified project directory in the project settings is also taken into consideration to find a file with a relative path - see help page titled Output Window command.

[sroberts]

Thanks Mofi, but it isn't the current directory I need to specify, it is an actual PATH list. So if I hit File / Open, and type "foo.inc", if the actual file is ".\inc\foo.inc" and my PATH is ".:inc", I'd like to just specify "foo.inc" and have UE find the file. My example sounds trivial but I am working on a system that uses thousands of files and a PATH of about 20 dirs. to invoke code - so I'm constantly having to search for files in the OS before I can tell UE where to find them.

Steve

[jorrasdk]

No UE (Windows) is not able to search multiple relative or even absolute file paths for a file in the file open dialog.

But I have a project with source code scattered across several folders. So I made a small script to easily open files from the desired folder. But my luck is that specific extensions is placed in certain folders so depending on the file name I know which folder to open from.

Here is a simplified version of my script:

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var myRootPath = "C:\\MyProject\\";

var selectProgram;
if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isSel()) {
  selectProgram = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection;
}
else {
  selectProgram = UltraEdit.getString("Enter filename to open:",1);
}

if (selectProgram.length==0) {
  // no filename entered or selected
}
else {
  if (selectProgram.indexOf(".jsp") > 0) {
    UltraEdit.open(myRootPath+"jsp\\"+selectProgram);
  }
  else {
    if ((selectProgram.indexOf(".java") > 0) || (selectProgram.indexOf(".class") > 0)) {
      selectProgram = selectProgram.replace(".class",".java");
      UltraEdit.open(myRootPath+"java\\"+selectProgram);
    }
    else {
      UltraEdit.open(myRootPath+"misc\\"+selectProgram);
    }
  }
}