Jeff,

The machine next to it is running version 2.5.4, and does reference the 
nc_files folder for gcode files. I checked the ini file for any other reference 
to nc_files, and no other instances exist.

Regards,
Eric


On September 1, 2017 10:29:05 AM EDT, Jeff Epler <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 09:21:42AM -0400, Eric H. Johnson wrote:
>> Dewey,
>> 
>> So is PROGRAM_PREFIX in the DISPLAY section getting ignored? I
>previously set it to:
>
>to the best of my knowledge, PROGRAM_PREFIX has never been used by
>task for opening part programs with relative paths.  If I'm mistaken
>about this, can you state a released version number or git ref which
>behaved differently?  If that behavior has changed, we'd want to treat
>it as a regression.
>
>(task *does* read PROGRAM_PREFIX, but it appears to do so only for
>locating custom M-code scripts, which is an unfortunate historical
>choice)
>
>Rather, UIs may read PROGRAM_PREFIX and use it in whatever way they see
>fit, such as showing the file open dialog with that directory as the
>initial location.  This is what AXIS does, last time I checked.
>
>If you decide you want to enhance your UI so that it automatically
>joins
>relative paths to PROGRAM_PREFIX before sending them to task, that
>would
>make sense to me.
>
>should consider using boost::filesystem for this purpose, since we
>already use several other boost facilities.  In the future, when C++17
>support is widespread, we can transition to use of std::filesystem with
>a mostly-compatible API.  This would involve a few steps, such as
>adding
>the right development packages to debian/ packaging metadata, adding
>configure tests to find the right library names to link, etc, before it
>could be used in a UI program.
>
>Jeff
>
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