Am Montag, den 22.10.2007, 15:20 -0400 schrieb Frederich, Eric P21322: > And as for the viewer updating...Should the program that is generating > the graphics notify the viewer that the file has been updated through > RMI? Should the viewer periodically check the filesystem? > Having an RMI client/server setup seems like overkill and checking the > filesystem every second seems like a bad idea too. > I've seen text editors that know when a file has been modified > externally. Any ideas how they work?
If you are targeting a Linux platform, you can probably make use of inotify. With this, the kernel can notify your application when the file has changed on disk. Cheers, Frederik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
