On 12 December 2010 19:09, Vikram Ambrose <noel.ambr...@gmail.com> wrote: > How do you figure out the file type inside GFileMonitor's "changed" callback > when the GFileMonitorEvent is a G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_DELETED? > > I was erroneously using g_file_query_file_type()!=G_FILE_TYPE_DIRECTORY, > without actually looking at the return value, until recently discovered that > since the GFile in question has just been deleted, it would always return > G_FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN.
A deleted file doesn't exist so it doesn't have a type. Since the event is telling you the file is deleted you already know this and don't need to query the type (or you can use the fact that G_FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN is documented to mean does not exist. Cheers Lex > > > Vikram. > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
