On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Stef Bon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm looking at qfilesystemwatcher. > It's not possible to configure what events it watches. For example: > > when watching a directory and an event happens on an entry in this > directory: it's changed. > The size for example is changed. qfilesystemwatcher doe not give this > information: it only signals that the "something" has been changed in > the directory. > > This means that you have to scan through the directory and compare > each file one by one. > FS Watches to watch a whole directory are used a lot, but it should > give more information about the event (name of entry, and a mask, > simular to inotify). > > Is this planned? > > Stef > > Hi Stef, What you describe is planned by me for the inotify backend (linux), but that's on my schedule for at least a year now so don't bet on that ending up in Qt anytime soon. Even if i make it, the other backends (Mac, Windows and the other supported Qt platforms) have to be adjusted accordingly as well and i don't even know if those backeds support the "flexibility" of inotify. If you (or anyone else) can offer help, it would be much appreciated.
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