Class: Gio::FileMonitor

Inherits:

Object

• Object
• Gio::FileMonitor

Defined in:

(unknown)

Instance Method Summary

• #cancel ⇒ Boolean

  Cancels a file monitor.

• #cancelled=(cancelled) ⇒ Boolean

  Whether the monitor has been cancelled.

• #cancelled? ⇒ Boolean

  Whether the monitor has been cancelled.

• #emit_event(child, other_file, event_type) ⇒ nil

  Emits the GFile::Monitor::changed signal if a change has taken place.

• #is_cancelled ⇒ Boolean

  Returns whether the monitor is canceled.

• #rate_limit ⇒ Integer

  The limit of the monitor to watch for changes, in milliseconds.

• #rate_limit=(rate_limit) ⇒ Integer

  The limit of the monitor to watch for changes, in milliseconds.

Instance Method Details

#cancel ⇒ Boolean

Cancels a file monitor.

Returns:

• (Boolean) —

  always true

#cancelled=(cancelled) ⇒ Boolean

Whether the monitor has been cancelled.

Parameters:

• cancelled (Boolean)

Returns:

• (Boolean) —

  cancelled

• (Boolean) —

  cancelled

#cancelled? ⇒ Boolean

Whether the monitor has been cancelled.

Returns:

• (Boolean) —

  cancelled

#emit_event(child, other_file, event_type) ⇒ nil

Emits the GFile::Monitor::changed signal if a change has taken place. Should be called from file monitor implementations only.

Implementations are responsible to call this method from the [thread-default main context][g-main-context-push-thread-default] of the thread that the monitor was created in.

Parameters:

• child (Gio::File) —

  a #GFile.

• other_file (Gio::File) —

  a #GFile.

• event_type (Gio::FileMonitorEvent) —

  a set of GFile::MonitorEvent flags.

Returns:

• (nil)

#is_cancelled ⇒ Boolean

Returns whether the monitor is canceled.

Returns:

• (Boolean) —

  true if monitor is canceled. false otherwise.

#rate_limit ⇒ Integer

The limit of the monitor to watch for changes, in milliseconds.

Returns:

• (Integer) —

  rate-limit

#rate_limit=(rate_limit) ⇒ Integer

The limit of the monitor to watch for changes, in milliseconds.

Parameters:

• rate_limit (Integer)

Returns:

• (Integer) —

  rate-limit

• (Integer) —

  rate-limit