IGUIFileOpenDialog changes current working directory

[ceyron]

When selecting a file with the file open dialog the current working directory [device->getFileSystem()->getWorkingDirectory()] will be changed to that of the currently selected file.

I do not know if this is the intended behaviour, but i found it very confusing when my configuration files where saved in a different place everytime i selected a new font.

Offtopic
Also a question for a dev, i am a little curious as to why a button for example doesn't serialize OverrideFont when i save the gui to file.
The line //out->addString("OverrideFont",OverrideFont); has been commented out in CGUIButton::serializeAttributes(), didn't it work? or do you have plans to include the setOverrideFont() method in IGUIElement and serialize that there?
I ask because i'm developing a gui editor for irrlicht and saving all the attributes of an element to file will be very helpfull to me.

[CuteAlien]

Yeah, changing working-directory is annoying, but probably was intended (it seems to be the same behaviour as the FileOpenDialog in Windows has).

And font-serialization is currently not used because we need a better serialization system for fonts (as well as for skins, particle-emitters and particle-attractors) or we can't handle custom-fonts with parameters. If we have no better solution before releasing 1.8 I will probably add font-names as strings as workaround.

[ceyron]

Ok, thanks for your answer...you could update the documentation to specify that it will change the working directory

[CuteAlien]

Ok, thanks for your answer...you could update the documentation to specify that it will change the working directory :wink:

Ok, I did that.