229373 - file open box loses "location" after cancelling the open box

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mr. Moose]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210

When you do a file/open on a stored web page for the first time, you look at the
files in your home directory, ~foo,  Next, say I another file open into the
~foo/dir1 location and go about my business.  If I do a file/open again, the
file choices that come up are once again in ~foo/dir1 (and will continue to be
so until I open a file in another directory).  If I do a file/open and then
cancel the dialog box by either the "X" button in the upper right or the
"cancel" button and then do another file/open, I will no longer be looking in
~foo/dir1, but it will kick me back to my home directory and show me the files
back in ~foo.

This isn't a show stopper, but it is inconvenient to have to find the directory
I was looking in last

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a file in something other than your home directory
2.start to open a file with file/open, then click cancel
3.do a file/open and notice that the file choices automatically put you back in
your home directory

Actual Results:  
I am looking at files in the home directory

Expected Results:  
I expect to be looking at the files in the last directory in which a file was
opened.  mozilla usually keeps track of the last directory opened (and I would
expect it to do so), unless you hit the cancel/"X" button.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The right thing to do is to not set lastDirectory at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/components/filepicker/src/nsFilePicker.js#223
if the retvals have a null dir (or maybe if the retvals show that the dialog was
cancelled).

Alternately, filepicker.js should set the directory in retvals even on cancel.

My personal preference is that we should store none of the state we are storing
there if the dialog was cancelled.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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