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Re: File System Notifications
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Re: File System Notifications


  • Subject: Re: File System Notifications
  • From: "Stephen J. Butler" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:14:24 -0500

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Omar Qazi <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm a little confused about file system notifications in Cocoa. In
> NSWorkspace, it says that the method for subscribing to file system
> notifications will always return NO, which seems useless to me. I know
> Carbon has the FNSubscribe() and FNUnsubscribe() functions, but can I use
> those to get a notification when another application opens a file? If not is
> there any way I can achieve this?

There isn't a Foundation/AppKit way to do it, but a couple people have
written wrappers for the Carbon and BSD APIs. You'll find this info
useful:

<http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?FileSystemNotifications>
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