Re: Getting file names "on the fly" with XP?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:39:46 +0200, "Sven Abels" <dump2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>
>> The Win API has FindFirstChangeNotification, FindNextChangeNotification
>> and
>> WaitForSingleObject which can be used for this type of work. They are not
>> limited to XP.
>
>
>Thanks a lot for the tip!
>I was able to find a TDirectoryWatch component at
>http://www.angusj.com/delphi/
>which actually looks quite good.
>However: I cannot see a way of retrieving the actual file name / directory
>name
>that changed.
>
>
>In the component, I think that it's somewhere in the following method but
>I have no clue how to extract the file name:


I downloaded and had a look at the TDirectoryWatch code. It's a fairly
minimal implementation of a wrapper for
FindFirst/NextChangeNotification;

I'd suggest you download the old TurboPower ShellShock component set
from SourceForge, it also has a wrapper component for these APIs
(TStShellNotification) which has a much more elaborate set of events
indicating what actually happened.

HTH

Stephen Posey
slposey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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