Problem with QFileSystemWatcher?

[arbi]

Hi ,

i am using QFileSystemWatcher to monitor some set of user defined folders. whenever a new file added into those folders i want to process those new files.

It seems that QFileSystemWatcher does not monitor the inner subfolders , which i want to achieve. Adding all of the folders in a given folder to the watchList seperately seems very ineffective and hard way of doing this, (especially updating myWatchList in case of adding a large folder into my already-monitored folders)

Is there any way of making this class to monitor folders recursively (including subfolders.)

thanks..

[talk2amulya]

well, as the documentation says, there is no way for u to monitor even the subfolders. but there is always a workaround in QT, so here is how u can easily create a stringlist of the sub-folders inside a folder: use the following function

QStringList subFoldersList(QString folder)
{
    QDir dir(folder);
     dir.setFilter(QDir::Dirs);
 
     QFileInfoList list = dir.entryInfoList();
     QStringList dirList;
 
     for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); ++i) {
         QFileInfo fileInfo = list.at(i);
         dirList << fileInfo.fileName();
     }
 
    return dirList;
}

QStringList subFoldersList(QString folder)
{
    QDir dir(folder);
     dir.setFilter(QDir::Dirs);

     QFileInfoList list = dir.entryInfoList();
     QStringList dirList;

     for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); ++i) {
         QFileInfo fileInfo = list.at(i);
         dirList << fileInfo.fileName();
     }
 
    return dirList;
}

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this way u can get the stringlist of subfolders and then u can use addPaths() easily

[Arifa]

I get these errors when I use the above code:
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
can u please let me know the solution if any

[Surendil]

Maybe you try to add "." or ".."?