Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, January 7, 2001, at 12:40 AM, Enrico Sersale wrote:

> > > - go with the Finder in a directory. 
> > >  
> > > - now open a terminal on the same dir and do something (ex. create or 
> > >   delete a file). 
> > >  
> > > Is the content of the finder window updated automatically? 
> >  
> > Forget about the Finder on MOSX, it is more than buggy... To answer 
> > your question (w/o actually trying it out), it *should* be updated, 
> > perhaps after some delay, but I doubt that it happens in that version 
> > (sometimes, I remember, you can't even force it to recognise new 
> > directory content)... 
> >  
> > cheers, Phil 
> > -- 
>  
> Ok. But what, which *object*, should notify the finder? 

The workspace manager should have a timed event to check to see if the 
directories
displayed in any of its viewer windows have been modified.
Thus, if a GNUstep app modifies a directory using the NSWorkspace APIs, the
workspace is notified immediately and windows are updated at once, and if you
modify things in any other way (like from a terminal window) the application
will update after a short dalay.
I think it takes about four seconds for the workspace to notice a modification
to the filesystem on my NeXTstep system, but if I remember correctly there is a
user default to modify the period at which the filesystem is checked.