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i am totally new to this and i apologize in advance for sounding stupid and sorry if this is not the right place to ask..
(OS Windows)how do i detect when a file has been changed ? do i need to monitor this file and check the last modified date&time? (how do i do this?)
furthermore how do i detect a certain application launch?
... thanxxx ...
Detecting application, you can do via named objects like mutex and all.
Regarding file notification, please go through below link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9...ification-in-c
cheers!!!
Vatsa
www.objectiveprogramming.com
A daemon is usually the best way to detect things like that. They are usually registered as a service and start on startup.
You could try:Quote:
Originally Posted by snehula
FindFirstChangeNotification / FindFirstChangeNotification / FindCloseChangeNotification
or
ReadDirectoryChangesW