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onhiatus
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It would be nice to have powerhome be able to monitor specified files and/or folders. Currently this has to be done with polling.
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dhoward
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Tony,
The only way I know of to do this so far is with polling. There might be a Windows hook that could be installed, but Im not currently familiar with it.
If you have any info about this, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks,
Dave.
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onhiatus
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Polling would be overkill, though I imagine that Powerhome could do it more efficiently than a macro...
I'd look at the win32 api - FindFirstChangeNotification seems to fit the bill. See MSDN
If you do have to poll, we could get 90% of the desired functionality by just having ph monitor a specified folder - that seems way more doable.
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nadler
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That would do the trick for me for updating What Playing in itunes. I don't know how to implement it though. Right now I'm running a macro every minute. It causes audio to stutter occasionally.
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dhoward
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Alrighty,
I went ahead and created a generic PowerHome plugin for file monitoring. You can download it here: http://www.power-home.com/download/phfilemonitor.zip.
This plugin will create no load on PowerHome and will fire a generic plugin trigger when any monitored file is changed (based upon file date/time stamp). You can pre-specify the files to monitor or add/change them at runtime.
Let me know how it goes,
Dave.
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nadler
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All I can say is you're unbelievable. No sooner had we asked and you did it!
It's installed and working perfectly.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Topic: Trigger on file change
