Re: Fragile Fences

Larry Barowski wrote: 
"Raymond DeCampo" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Roedy Green wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:01:40 GMT, "Virgil Green"
<vjg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted :



I removed the change via TextPad and
saved it. When I returned to Eclipse I was presented with a dialog
indicating that the file had been changed externally by another program


and

it offered to reload it. 


That proves my point that Eclipse must have its own internal copy. If
it did not, how could it detect the change, and how could it offer to
carry on WITHOUT reloading.


The same way all editors do this.  They watch the file system, hopefully
with native code that does not require polling, to see if the time stamp
of the file changes from when they opened it.



On Windows, most editors just check file mod times whenever
an application window gets focus. On an FFM system that would
be annoying though.



Those editors will miss out on changes that happen via background processes, by network file access, etc. that occur while the window has focus.

I'm not sure what you mean by a FFM system.

Ray

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