detecting document changes
Cliff Wells
logiplex at qwest.net
Mon Aug 25 16:42:52 EDT 2003
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 02:36, Alessandro Crugnola *sephiroth* wrote:
> Hi,
> i'm using wxPython and wxTextStyled.
> How can I intercept document changes for active documents (for example
> modified with others external editors)?
If you're on Linux (and perhaps other Unices) you can use FAM (file
alteration monitor). There's a Python library for the SGI version of
FAM (I don't know if it will work with anything other than XFS):
http://python-fam.sourceforge.net/
also check out this link:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html
If you're looking for a more general or cross-platform solution then
probably just periodically checking timestamp/size/md5sum for the file
is another (albeit somewhat less elegant) option.
Regards,
--
Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
(503) 978-6726 (800) 735-0555
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