Thanks Rob. This works great and if Stu is on this list great class!

tom


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Keniger" <r...@menumachine.com>
To: "cocoa-dev Dev" <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:57:21 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Watch for a file


On 25/06/2009, at 12:38 PM, Graham Cox wrote:

>
> No.
>
> There are other ways however - search the documentation for "folder  
> watching" and "kqueue". Uli Kusterer has a small easy-to-use class  
> for this - UKKQueue.


I'd also recommend Stu Connolly's SCEvents class:

http://stuconnolly.com/blog/scevents-011/

This is a wrapper around FSEvents, which is what Spotlight etc uses to  
keep track of file changes. FSEvents is a newer API then kqueues and I  
found SCEvents much easier to implement than UKKQueue.

--
Rob Keniger



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