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When you click on the Open File
icon
in any of the ESI Software products, a File browser panel appears.
Look closely and you will see a red flag, a hammer and a house among
the
icons at the top of the panel.
The red flag is a feature called a "Bookmark", very
similar
to bookmarks in Netscape Navigator or favorites in Internet Explorer.
You can have as many bookmarks as you wish. The figure below
shows
an example where the user has already set a bookmark to the
"D:\Projects"
directory. Next time there is a need to get to this directory,
the
bookmark provides a one-step shortcut.
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The house will
take
you to the HOME directory as defined by your operating system. On
Linux
or Unix, this will be your login directory. The behavior on
Windows
may depend on where the software is installed. In any case, you
can
experiment with this feature to see what shortcut it may provide.
The hammer will take you to the current working
directory.
On Linux / Unix, this is the directory you were in when you
started
the application. On Windows, it will depend whether you
right-clicked
on a file or used the Start Menu.
In any case, if the File panel does not open in the directory you
wanted
or expected, either the house or the hammer should quickly get you
where
you want to go. If not, set a bookmark so that next time you can
get
there in one step. |
If you have
any questions about this feature or would like us to
discuss some other topic in the future, please let us know.
Ed Blosch, Ph.D.
Lead Engineer, CFD-ACE+
ESI US R&D
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