Suppose I have an open lister, and a file gets added to the directory it is displaying. Does an event get fired? Thanks.

Search for WatchTab to find threads/examples that do that. Docs on it are here: https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/index.html#!Documents/Scripting/Dialog.htm (While it's tied to the Dialog object, you can make the dialog completely transparent so you never see it.)

I am struggling to get this working, Leo. Can you give me a hint as to how I could modify that script to watch a particular directory and print out a message if a file gets added? I think my problem might be I don't have a script resource to use with dlg.template, but this is a script and not trigg…

Here's a working example: [image] Filetags - file tagger and metadata viewer Buttons/Scripts Background: This project was inspired by @Steve 's excellent Photo Exif script which was inspired in turn by @auden 's metadata entry system . I added support for tagging and button…

Thank you, Ixp. I will look at that.

Is an event fired when lister contents change?

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lxp September 15, 2023, 5:43pm 5

Here's a working example: