http://www.osnews.com/story/7376/A_Directory_Monitor_Class_For_Delphi Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:56:26 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? "There are times when a directory needs watched."

There are times when you need to use the verb "to be".

In case you don't realize it, you should have written, "There are times when a directory needs to be watched." It is not correct to drop "to be" from the sentence. Its your verb, cherish it. Don't submit to colloquialisms! Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I wonder why this article is published here !?
To publish this article at codeproject or codeguru would be a better idea, I think. Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? The vast majority of osnews readers are developers. OSNews is a tech site, not an operating systems news site only. How many times should we explain that? Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I'd kinda like to see FAM supported in kernel on all platforms, especially for those that use gconf as it seems to make the biggest impact there on my OBSD system (no FAM) compared to my Gentoo system (FAM). Gnome-VFS (can) use(s) FAM, and frankly I like it from an app devellopment point of view.


http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I'm not sure if anyone here cares about Delphi.. Or about Windows directory monitoring either. Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I'd personally like to see Glib and GConf rot. Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? KDE already does this, so I assume it should be fairly straightforward to do with Qt on Windows since there's now code available online...

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kio/html/cla... Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I use Delphi all the time and really enjoy thoughtful articles like this. thanks. Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? >
There are times when a directory needs watched. For reasons of its own, a program may need to know when a file is deleted, updated or renamed. If .NET is involved, this is a trivial task
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There are hell of a lot of things .NET isn't good for and this is one of them.

Who in their right mind is going to let some crap running under .NET delete, update or rename any fricking files without their permission if they can help it?

And if they are going to give their permission why bother
running a .NET app to begin with? Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? >
There are times when a directory needs watched. For reasons of its own, a program may need to know when a file is deleted, updated or renamed. If .NET is involved, this is a trivial task
>
>
There are hell of a lot of things .NET isn't good for and this is one of them.

Who in their right mind is going to let some crap running under .NET delete, update or rename any fricking files without their permission if they can help it?

And if they are going to give their permission why bother
running a .NET app to begin with?


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I think that you should understand what you are reading before you post a comment. The article is about monitoring file system actions, not performing them. Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Rick James is an idiot who does not have the intelligence to latch on to the fact that directory and file change monitoring is pretty much a standard mode of operation for many apps and background processes. Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? "If a non .NET solution is required the ReadDirectoryChangesW function must be used"

That statement is false.

There are other Win 32 API calls that can accomplish the same thing (FindFirstChangeNotification).

Francois Piette wrote a Delphi component 7 years ago that accomplishes the same thing. Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? If I knew I could get fairly random Delphi articles published on OSNews I would have written a few by now... LOL! Not clear how this is OS related as it is a pretty simple example and Windows centric... ah well. Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Click on the gear-looking icon near the top of this article. That is the topic "development" topic. OSNews frequently posts news about this. You must be new here. Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? No.. I'm just a Delphi developer. This article is worrying me because this sort of stuff is Win32 101. This is "bread and butter" coding for me. It's not what I would class as something worthy of publishing here.

But, hey, who am I to complain about a Delphi article!!

This does much the same (though in C++... not exactly hard to convert to Delphi though):

http://www.relisoft.com/win32/watcher.html Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? >This article is worrying me because this sort of stuff is Win32 101

Yes, so???
Windows is an OS, right? Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments