On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:22:54AM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some >> people complained about this. A user contacted me and we developed >> together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is changed. >> Unfortunaltely file handles seem to be handled differently in Vista, so >> that this program fails there. > > What is the reason for this complaint? It does not affect the performance > in any way. If you know of a better solution to get the same result, let me > know and I will change it.
Checking a file on harddisk every 0.5s will e.g. a laptop never go to rest... Andre'