Re: Cocoa File Close Notification
Re: Cocoa File Close Notification
- Subject: Re: Cocoa File Close Notification
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:30:46 -0700
> On Aug 10, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Gurkan Erdogdu <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I try to get file close notification in Cocoa/Swift. Is there any way to do this? I tried to use FSEvent API but this does not provide any notification for file close events.
I don’t think there’s any such notification. File handles are private to a process.
> Any help is appreciated. What I want to do is when word or PDF file is closed, I want my Cocoa application do sometnig?
If you want to do something when the file is changed, then watch for file-changed events. You’ll probably want to wait a few seconds after the last such event, because you may get several in a row if the changes take a while (for example if a file is being downloaded.)
If you want to do something when a _document_ is closed in an app like Preview or Word, that’s entirely different. Closing a document has nothing to do with closing a file. When most apps open a document they open the file, read its contents, and then close the file. They don’t leave it open while the document is open. As far as I know there is no reliable way to detect when some other app closes a document.
—Jens
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