How to Trigger Events with File system watcher?

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I am looking for a way to take some weight off the coding side of things to use a system file watcher to trigger some events. Created, Renamed, Deleted, Changed are the main options but there are also others in the properties window such as file name, directory name, security and so forth. What is the easiest attribute or option to choose to say add a file to a list box that has just been accessed or how can I monitor a change to then trigger an event?

thank you in advance

'I know this post is a bit out of the box'

Posted 21-Jan-12 20:28pm

Dale 2012

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Jan-12 2:32am

It looks like you know about the class FileSystemWatcher. What seems to be a problem? Just use it.
--SA

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Kim Togo · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-21T22:54:00

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As SA have written, use FileSystemWatcher Class[^]

And read this CP article: FileSystemWatcher - Pure Chaos (Part 1 of 2)[^]

Gives a good inside info :-)

Posted 21-Jan-12 22:54pm

Kim Togo