Your suggestion works:) Thanks for your reply.
could you please let me know how I can retrieve the path to SD card?
On Jan 7, 1:22 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Er... this is not windows, you should use '/' as your path separator. Also
> you really should retrieve the path to the sd card instead of hard-coding
> it.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:16 PM, pradeep <pradeep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hi all,
>
> > the below program which i got form net. i am able to create the file
> > a.txt but the onEvent fuction is not being called as the Log.e
> > (........); is not getting logged.
>
> > plz help me out.
>
> > *************************************************************start of
> > the program*******************************************************
> > package com.home.files;
>
> > import java.io.File;
> > import java.io.IOException;
>
> > import android.app.Activity;
> > import android.os.Bundle;
> > import android.os.FileObserver;
> > import android.util.Log;
>
> > public class filesystem extends Activity
> > {
> > public static final String TAG="filesystem";
> > public FileObserver observer;
> > �...@override
> > public void onCreate(Bundle icicle)
> > {
> > super.onCreate(icicle);
> > setContentView(R.layout.main);
> > observer=new FileObserver("\\sdcard\\tmp"){
> > �...@override
> > public void onEvent(int event, String path)
> > {
> > Log.e(TAG,"onevent");
> > if(event == FileObserver.CREATE){
> > Log.e(TAG, "File created [" + path +
> > "]");
> > }
> > else if(event == FileObserver.DELETE){
> > Log.e(TAG, "File deleted [" + path +
> > "]");
> > }
> > }
> > };
> > observer.startWatching();
> > File f=new File("\\sdcard\\tmp\\a.txt");
>
> > try {
> > f.createNewFile();
> > observer.stopWatching();
> > Log.e(TAG,"file created");
> > }
> > catch (IOException e) { }
>
> > }
> > }
>
> > **************************************End of the
>
> > program******************************************************************************
>
> > On Jan 6, 12:56 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> > > Use android.os.FileObserver.
>
> > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:19 AM, pradeep <pradeep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > how to get notifications if i make any change in file system like i
> > > > add a file or delete a file.
>
> > > --
> > > Dianne Hackborn
> > > Android framework engineer
> > > hack...@android.com
>
> > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> > > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public
> > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public
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