On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Joacim Thomassen <joa...@net.homelinux.org> wrote: > Den Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:47:57 +0200, skrev Marco Bizzarri: > > > Hello Marco, > > python's fcntl() call the regular C fcntl() function and as stated in the > manual pages for C fcntl: > > ----------- Snippet from fcntl man pages ---------------- > > File and directory change notification (dnotify) > F_NOTIFY (long) > (Linux 2.4 onwards) Provide notification when the > directory referred to by fd or any of the files that it > contains is changed. The events to be notified are > specified in arg, which is a bit mask specified by ORing > together zero or more of the following bits: > > DN_MODIFY A file was modified (write, pwrite, writev, > truncate, ftruncate). > ------------- End snippet of fcntl man pages ------------------- > > The fact that my program actually trigger a signal as the monitored > directoy's image.jpg file change confirm that this part of the code do > work. I do get "Change happened!" as i manually do a "cp another.jpg > image.jpg", but this action is first seen after I close my application > window. (I do not get "Change happened!" if I don't do my manual cp > command. :-) ) > > Personaly I believe this has something to do with the GUI/Qt4 part that I > have not understood. Something about how a widget repaint itself or > something in that direction. > > Best regards, > Joacim > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
You're right: I've found the following answer googling: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-February/597617.html indeed, addind a startTimer() to your code, makes it works ;). Regards Marco -- Marco Bizzarri http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
