Modern Fs FileWatcher Start

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FileWatcher.Start

Starts watching a folder for changes, subfolders too when recursive is true.

Syntax

FileWatcher.Start( p [, recursive ] )

Notes

• FsResultBool

Examples

#import "std/fs"
using fs

dim td as FsResultUStr = CreateTempDir( "fbdoc" )
dim as ustring dir_ = td.Value( )
dim as ustring p = PathJoin( dir_, "f.txt" )
WriteAllText( p, "hello" )

dim w as FileWatcher

'' Non-recursive by default; pass TRUE to watch subdirectories too
print w.Start( dir_ ).IsOk( )             '' true
print w.IsWatching( )                      '' true

w.Stop( )

RemoveDirAll( dir_ )

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Library: Filesystem Library
Category: Filesystem
Documented under: Locking, Mapping And Watching