ReadDirectoryChangesW?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:45:22 +0400, Extrawurst <spam at extrawurst.org> wrote:

> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:02:54 +0400, Zz <Zz at nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Denis Koroskin Wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:07:09 +0400, Zz <Zz at nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > davidl Wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> 在 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:10:12 +0800，Zz <Zz at qqq.c> å† 
>>>> ™é�“:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > Has anyone done a wrapper for windows ReadDirectoryChangesW?
>>>> >> > I expected it in phobos windows.d but it's not there.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Zz
>>>> >> www.dsource.org/projects/bindings should have got it done
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
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>>>> > Hi David,
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks for the link the project WindowsAPI had the wrappers and it  
>>>> works
>>>> > with a little modification to FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION.
>>>> >
>>>> > Zz
>>>>
>>>> What are the modifications? Could you commit them, please?
>>>
>>> I removed what I need from WindowsAPI and pasted it into my project  
>>> since I use D 2.0 and not 1.0.
>>>
>>> I just changed FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION so that it looks like the  
>>> following (which is more like the original definition in MSDN).
>>>
>>> Note: I removed _FileName;
>>>
>>> struct FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION
>>> {
>>> DWORD NextEntryOffset;
>>> DWORD Action;
>>> DWORD FileNameLength;
>>> WCHAR FileName;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Where you have got to cast to get FileName.
>>>
>>> It was good enough for what I needed to do.
>>>
>>> You can also look at Watcher http://www.dsource.org/projects/watcher  
>>> where it's done differently and works with Mango.
>>>
>>> Zz
>>
>> win32 bindings used to work with both D1 and D2 (a few versions ago at  
>> least).
>> I'll take a look and update them if they got broken by recent changes.
>>
>> Thanks.
> there was a breaking change though with deprecated types in one of the  
> last updates i can recall

I remember it. Wasn't it fixed shortly after the introduction ("for  
Tango")?
IIRC, it affected both D1 and D2, so the code should either work for both  
or for none.