changing working directory?

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hack_tick - 24 Oct 2005 08:56 GMT

hi there!
I am looking for changing the working directory, using j2se methods is
it possible?

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Roedy Green - 24 Oct 2005 09:40 GMT

>hi there!
>I am looking for changing the working directory, using j2se methods is
>it possible?

No. Part of the problem is defining what it would mean if thread A
changed it. What does thread B think?

What you do instead is define your own default directory, and in the
simplest case just feed it to File( dir, file) as the first parm.

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hack_tick - 24 Oct 2005 09:55 GMT

m...i was using Runtime.exec i forgot it had overloaded method,

public Process exec(String[] cmdarray,
String[] envp,
File dir)
throws IOException

it seems i didnt do my homework :-(

sorry for any trouble

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Andrew Thompson - 24 Oct 2005 09:41 GMT

> I am looking for changing the working directory,

You're looking for the wrong thing*. Why do you
think you need that?

* A 'NetworkClassLoader' (see ClassLoader docs.)
and a FileDialog or JFileChooser can get at any
resource in the local file system, permissions granted.

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hack_tick - 24 Oct 2005 09:56 GMT

thx a lot, i will keep note of those ;-)

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