Lothar Scholz: > dvn> because of the file dialog used, which doesn't remember the last location > dvn> visited, for example. > > No toolkit does this as it is the task of the GUI application itself, > otherwise different open dialogs would show the same directory. So you > must blame FreeRIDE here. Windows (2000/XP) remembers the directory on behalf of the application when using the standard file open and save dialogs. This is stored in the registry keyed on the application name in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\LastVisitedMRU Neil