Gio::FileMonitor question

[kahumba]

Hi,
The Gio::FileMonitor's event function looks like this:


on_changed (
const Glib::RefPtr< File >& file,
const Glib::RefPtr< File >& other_file,
FileMonitorEvent event_type)
Afaik first file argument is the file that changed, but what for is the second file argument?

[kahumba]

No one?

[Zugzwang]

No clue. Seems to be undocumented. Probably that parameter is put there to be able to support file renaming operations at some point in the future.

[kahumba]

Thanks, well, file renaming so far goes through "event deleted" and then "event created" events, so it's possible what you're suggesting is true, but I wonder why such an obvious issue hasn't been "fixed" when they created the API in the first place, (Java7 handles this easily through 'ENTRY_MODIFY"..), it's not like sending a man to the moon..

[cszikszoy]

Other file is supposed to be used when you move or rename a file. File would be the name of the original file, other would be the new name. Unfortunately, the new file argument was never used in the core of GIO. There was a bug report, and there has been some activity on this (I think resolving the issue and actually using other file as it was meant to be used) but I can't seem to find the bug report.