monitor

Obtains a file or directory monitor for the given file, depending on the type of the file.

If cancellable is not null, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error g_io_error_cancelled will be returned.

Example: File monitoring:

public static int main () {
	try {
		File file = File.new_for_path (Environment.get_home_dir ());
		FileMonitor monitor = file.monitor (FileMonitorFlags.NONE, null);
		print ("Monitoring: %s\n", file.get_path ());

		monitor.changed.connect ((src, dest, event) => {
			if (dest != null) {
				print ("%s: %s, %s\n", event.to_string (), src.get_path (), dest.get_path ());
			} else {
				print ("%s: %s\n", event.to_string (), src.get_path ());
			}
		});

		new MainLoop ().run ();
	} catch (Error err) {
		print ("Error: %s\n", err.message);
	}
	return 0;
}

valac --pkg gio-2.0 GLib.File.monitor.vala

Parameters:

this	input File
flags	a set of FileMonitorFlags
cancellable	optional Cancellable object, null to ignore

Returns:

a FileMonitor for the given this, or null on error. Free the returned object with unref.