From frist@cc.umanitoba.ca Thu May 11 12:58:52 2006
Subject: Suggestion for ArrayNorm: default directories
From: Brian Fristensky <frist@cc.umanitoba.ca>
To: ArrayNorm@genome.tugraz.at
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It would be useful if ArrayNorm
would look for data files in the current working directory,
or in the user's HOME directory, rather than in
the ArrayNorm directory. That is, each time the
user reads or writes a file, the File Chooser opens
in the ArrayNorm directory, and user must click
through the directory tree to get back to the
location of his files. This becomes tiresome,
particularly on multiuser systems where there might
be hundreds of HOME directories in a directory tree,
and you have to wait for all of them to be displayed,
and then to scroll down to your own HOME directory.

I have tried modifying ArrayNorm.lax with no success:

ArrayNorm.lax seems to imply that it is possible
to set a default directory for user files (as opposed
to program files)

lax.user.dir=.

is the default, but this causes the program to start
in the ArrayNorm directory, NOT in the user's current
working directory. The comments imply that one
should be able to change it to

lax.user.dir=

but in that case ArrayNorm will give an error message

Main application properties file is missing, program
will exit now.

There does not seem to be any way to get ArrayNorm
to default to any directory other than the ArrayNorm directory.

I am still experimenting with ArrayNorm, but other
than this one issue, it seems to be a fairly intuitive
program to use. Thank you for making this program
available to the research community.


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