Class

GioFileMonitor

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Description [src]

abstract class Gio.FileMonitor : GObject.Object
{
  /* No available fields */
}

Monitors a file or directory for changes.

To obtain a GFileMonitor for a file or directory, use g_file_monitor(), g_file_monitor_file(), or g_file_monitor_directory().

To get informed about changes to the file or directory you are monitoring, connect to the GFileMonitor::changed signal. The signal will be emitted in the thread-default main context (see 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).

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Ancestors

GObject

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Instance methods

g_file_monitor_cancel

Cancels a file monitor.

g_file_monitor_emit_event

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

g_file_monitor_is_cancelled

Returns whether the monitor is canceled.

g_file_monitor_set_rate_limit

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

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Methods inherited from GObject (43)

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Properties

Gio.FileMonitor:cancelled

Whether the monitor has been cancelled.

Gio.FileMonitor:rate-limit

The limit of the monitor to watch for changes, in milliseconds.

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Signals

Gio.FileMonitor::changed

Emitted when file has been changed.

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Signals inherited from GObject (1)

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Class structure

struct GioFileMonitorClass {
  GObjectClass parent_class;
  void (* changed) (
    GFileMonitor* monitor,
    GFile* file,
    GFile* other_file,
    GFileMonitorEvent event_type
  );
  gboolean (* cancel) (
    GFileMonitor* monitor
  );
  void (* _g_reserved1) (
void
  );
  void (* _g_reserved2) (
void
  );
  void (* _g_reserved3) (
void
  );
  void (* _g_reserved4) (
void
  );
  void (* _g_reserved5) (
void
  );
  
}

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Virtual methods

Gio.FileMonitorClass.cancel