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Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea)
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Enrico Sersale |
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Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea) |
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Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:13:42 +0200 (EET) |
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Well, I know this way. My old file manager, WMFinder, uses something like
this...
But in wmfinder each window shows only one directory; in a browser based
view of the filesystem the directories to verify are many and the check
can be very time-consuming.
I was only wondering if there is an other, more elegant, solution...
- RE: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Philippe C.D. Robert, 2001/01/05
- RE: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), ian . mondragon, 2001/01/05
- RE: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), ian . mondragon, 2001/01/05
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Gregory Casamento, 2001/01/07
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2001/01/07
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea),
Enrico Sersale <=
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2001/01/07
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2001/01/07