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Igor Kokarev

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How to monitor a folder for changes
« on: October 22, 2020, 02:52:34 pm »
Hi,

How to monitor a folder for changes (new/modified files/folders) with Cocoa in macOS? Is there any examples on FPC?
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MarkMLl

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Re: How to monitor a folder for changes
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2020, 02:57:52 pm »
I've done it on linux but I don't know whether the same API is applicable to Macs.

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Re: How to monitor a folder for changes
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2020, 01:48:52 am »
See File System Events and packages/univint/src/FSEvents.pas
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Igor Kokarev

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Re: How to monitor a folder for changes
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2020, 01:37:13 pm »
trev,
Mark,

Many thanks for your replies!

I'll learn FSEvents now.
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Re: How to monitor a folder for changes
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2020, 02:01:45 pm »
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