Have you considered using a dispatch source? You might have to do some manual checking when you get a notification about activity with your file, but it might be suitable to your needs.
Here's a link I was reading: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11355144/file-monitoring-using-grand-central-dispatch Sandor Szatmari > On Aug 10, 2016, at 15:30, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Aug 10, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Gurkan Erdogdu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I try to get file close notification in Cocoa/Swift. Is there any way to do >> this? I tried to use FSEvent API but this does not provide any notification >> for file close events. > > I don’t think there’s any such notification. File handles are private to a > process. > >> Any help is appreciated. What I want to do is when word or PDF file is >> closed, I want my Cocoa application do sometnig? > > If you want to do something when the file is changed, then watch for > file-changed events. You’ll probably want to wait a few seconds after the > last such event, because you may get several in a row if the changes take a > while (for example if a file is being downloaded.) > > If you want to do something when a _document_ is closed in an app like > Preview or Word, that’s entirely different. Closing a document has nothing to > do with closing a file. When most apps open a document they open the file, > read its contents, and then close the file. They don’t leave it open while > the document is open. As far as I know there is no reliable way to detect > when some other app closes a document. > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/admin.szatmari.net%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
