Hi all,
I am a new user trying to migrate from MultiEdit.
MultiEdit has a nice feature which I am trying to replicate with some script.
When starting from command line from a specific directory, ME automatically loads the session associated to that directory/project and if there is not any, it creates a new one.

With UE I currently made a batch file which loads the ue.prj file in the current directory, but this does not create an empty project if the ue.prj file is not there.

I wish to create a script automatically called by the batch which performs these steps:
- if ue.prj is not present it creates a default empty project (it's an ASCII file so it's easy)
- if it is present it opens it
- changes UE current directory to the command shell current directory

The first two steps can be performed also by an external simple application, but the third not. To be clean I am trying to create a unique script which does all these steps.

I am stuck on the following points:
- how can I know the current directory from a Script?
- how can I change the current directory of UE? I mean when I press Open... I would like to see the explorer box starting from the path I have launched UE.

Anyone has some ideas?

Another question (I think there is already the answer in this forum, but I can't find), how can I know the filename and directory of an opened file? I see there is isExt and isName in the document object, but can't see something like getName(), ...

Thanks in advance to everybody.
Giorgio

Thanks for the quick answer

Which directory is the current working directory is specified by the options you select at Advanced - Configuration - File Handling - Load

This is fine, but is there any way to change from a script? If I start ultraedit by command line I wish to change the default directory to the Prompt directory. One of the feature I miss most of MultiEdit is the session management. If I start ME from c:\pippo it automatically loads the session (File open, search history ecc...) I had last time I started ME from c:\pippo. This is very powerfull as you don't have to look for project files on the disk.

I have done a script which is called automatically by a batch which can load a project file automatically, but I can't change the UE default directory from my script. My idea is to generate in the local (DOS) directory automatically an empty project file (if not already present) called ue.prj for example, and load it automatically each time I call my batch from a prompt box.

But this can't work unless I am able to know the Prompt local directory from the script.

By now, I have a workaround: I use an external small application which creates the project file if does not exist and I start UE making it open that project file. But this looks very ugly.

Giorgio

Thank you very much for your help,
very detailed.

Giorgio