FileMonitor


Object Hierarchy:

GLib.FileMonitor GLib.FileMonitor GLib.FileMonitor GLib.Object GLib.Object GLib.Object->GLib.FileMonitor

Description:

[ CCode ( type_id = "g_file_monitor_get_type ()" ) ]
public abstract class FileMonitor : Object

Monitors a file or directory for changes.

To obtain a `GFileMonitor` for a file or directory, use [method@Gio.File.monitor], [method@Gio.File.monitor_file], or [ method@Gio.File.monitor_directory].

To get informed about changes to the file or directory you are monitoring, connect to the [signal@Gio.FileMonitor:GFileMonitor:changed ] signal. The signal will be emitted in the thread-default main context (see [method@GLib.MainContext.push_thread_default]) of the thread that the monitor was created in (though if the global default main context is blocked, this may cause notifications to be blocked even if the thread-default context is still running).

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


Namespace: GLib
Package: gio-2.0

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