[Qt-creator] Strange behavior of Utils::FileSystemWatcher

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Thu Apr 5 11:12:02 CEST 2012



05.04.2012, 12:32, "Christian Kandeler" <christian.kandeler at nokia.com>:
> On 04/04/12 16:14, ext Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>
>>  I was using QFileSystemWatcher in my plugin, but than discovered Utils::FileSystemWatcher.
>>
>>  "Constructing/Destructing a QFileSystemWatcher is expensive. This can be worked around
>>  by using a centralized watcher..."
>>
>>  So I've decided I should use it instead of QFileSystemWatcher for the great justice. However,
>>  when I switched I've discovered very strange behavior: I get signal fileChanged for certain
>>  file only once.
>
> Are you by any chance editing the files outside QtCreator with an editor
> such as emacs that actually creates a new file when saving? AFAIK, QFSW
> is not able to detect that the underlying inode has changed.

No, I modify file inside QtCreator.

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin



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