gi-gio-2.0.27: Gio bindings
CopyrightWill Thompson Iñaki García Etxebarria and Jonas Platte
LicenseLGPL-2.1
MaintainerIñaki García Etxebarria
Safe HaskellNone
LanguageHaskell2010

GI.Gio.Objects.FileMonitor

Description

Monitors a file or directory for changes.

To obtain a FileMonitor for a file or directory, use fileMonitor, fileMonitorFile, or fileMonitorDirectory.

To get informed about changes to the file or directory you are monitoring, connect to the changed signal. The signal will be emitted in the [thread-default main context][g-main-context-push-thread-default] of the thread that the monitor was created in (though if the global default main context is blocked, this may cause notifications to be blocked even if the thread-default context is still running).

Synopsis

Exported types

newtype FileMonitor Source #

Memory-managed wrapper type.

class (GObject o, IsDescendantOf FileMonitor o) => IsFileMonitor o Source #

Type class for types which can be safely cast to FileMonitor, for instance with toFileMonitor.

Instances

Instances details
(GObject o, IsDescendantOf FileMonitor o) => IsFileMonitor o Source # 
Instance details

Defined in GI.Gio.Objects.FileMonitor

toFileMonitor :: (MonadIO m, IsFileMonitor o) => o -> m FileMonitor Source #

Cast to FileMonitor, for types for which this is known to be safe. For general casts, use castTo.

Methods

Overloaded methods

cancel

fileMonitorCancel Source #

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsFileMonitor a) 
=> a

monitor: a FileMonitor.

-> m Bool

Returns: always True

Cancels a file monitor.

emitEvent

fileMonitorEmitEvent Source #

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsFileMonitor a, IsFile b, IsFile c) 
=> a

monitor: a FileMonitor.

-> b

child: a File.

-> c

otherFile: a File.

-> FileMonitorEvent

eventType: a set of FileMonitorEvent flags.

-> m () 

Emits the changed signal if a change has taken place. Should be called from file monitor implementations only.

Implementations are responsible to call this method from the [thread-default main context][g-main-context-push-thread-default] of the thread that the monitor was created in.

isCancelled

fileMonitorIsCancelled Source #

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsFileMonitor a) 
=> a

monitor: a FileMonitor

-> m Bool

Returns: True if monitor is canceled. False otherwise.

Returns whether the monitor is canceled.

setRateLimit

fileMonitorSetRateLimit Source #

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsFileMonitor a) 
=> a

monitor: a FileMonitor.

-> Int32

limitMsecs: a non-negative integer with the limit in milliseconds to poll for changes

-> m () 

Sets the rate limit to which the monitor will report consecutive change events to the same file.

Properties

cancelled

No description available in the introspection data.

getFileMonitorCancelled :: (MonadIO m, IsFileMonitor o) => o -> m Bool Source #

Get the value of the “cancelled” property. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

get fileMonitor #cancelled

rateLimit

No description available in the introspection data.

constructFileMonitorRateLimit :: (IsFileMonitor o, MonadIO m) => Int32 -> m (GValueConstruct o) Source #

Construct a GValueConstruct with valid value for the “rate-limit” property. This is rarely needed directly, but it is used by new.

getFileMonitorRateLimit :: (MonadIO m, IsFileMonitor o) => o -> m Int32 Source #

Get the value of the “rate-limit” property. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

get fileMonitor #rateLimit

setFileMonitorRateLimit :: (MonadIO m, IsFileMonitor o) => o -> Int32 -> m () Source #

Set the value of the “rate-limit” property. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

set fileMonitor [ #rateLimit := value ]

Signals

changed

type C_FileMonitorChangedCallback = Ptr () -> Ptr File -> Ptr File -> CUInt -> Ptr () -> IO () Source #

Type for the callback on the (unwrapped) C side.

type FileMonitorChangedCallback Source #

Arguments

 = File

file: a File.

-> Maybe File

otherFile: a File or NULL.

-> FileMonitorEvent

eventType: a FileMonitorEvent.

-> IO () 

Emitted when file has been changed.

If using FileMonitorFlagsWatchMoves on a directory monitor, and the information is available (and if supported by the backend), eventType may be FileMonitorEventRenamed, FileMonitorEventMovedIn or FileMonitorEventMovedOut.

In all cases file will be a child of the monitored directory. For renames, file will be the old name and otherFile is the new name. For "moved in" events, file is the name of the file that appeared and otherFile is the old name that it was moved from (in another directory). For "moved out" events, file is the name of the file that used to be in this directory and otherFile is the name of the file at its new location.

It makes sense to treat FileMonitorEventMovedIn as equivalent to FileMonitorEventCreated and FileMonitorEventMovedOut as equivalent to FileMonitorEventDeleted, with extra information. FileMonitorEventRenamed is equivalent to a delete/create pair. This is exactly how the events will be reported in the case that the FileMonitorFlagsWatchMoves flag is not in use.

If using the deprecated flag FileMonitorFlagsSendMoved flag and eventType is G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_MOVED, file will be set to a File containing the old path, and otherFile will be set to a File containing the new path.

In all the other cases, otherFile will be set to NULL.

afterFileMonitorChanged :: (IsFileMonitor a, MonadIO m) => a -> FileMonitorChangedCallback -> m SignalHandlerId Source #

Connect a signal handler for the changed signal, to be run after the default handler. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

after fileMonitor #changed callback

onFileMonitorChanged :: (IsFileMonitor a, MonadIO m) => a -> FileMonitorChangedCallback -> m SignalHandlerId Source #

Connect a signal handler for the changed signal, to be run before the default handler. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

on fileMonitor #changed callback