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Re: Continuous check for new files and processing possible? [message #92706 is a reply to message #92705]

Thu, 11 February 2016 08:23

wlandsman
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This is not a full answer but you might want to look at the FOLDERWATCH object introduced in IDL 8.4

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 11:13:44 AM UTC-5, rog...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'd like to do the following. My application should check every second for new files, read the content (csv), process it, display it (maybe inside a widget_window?) until a button is pressed. Unfortunately, there is another software that runs in parallel, produces those files and may 'steal' the focus.
>
> Maybe somebody had a similar problem and can help?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Chris

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		Continuous check for new files and processing possible? By: rogass on Thu, 11 February 2016 08:13
		Re: Continuous check for new files and processing possible? By: wlandsman on Thu, 11 February 2016 08:23
		Re: Continuous check for new files and processing possible? By: rogass on Thu, 11 February 2016 08:28
		Re: Continuous check for new files and processing possible? By: wlandsman on Thu, 11 February 2016 10:56
		Re: Continuous check for new files and processing possible? By: rogass on Mon, 15 February 2016 03:12

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