KDirWatch emitting dirty signal many times for one change

[Matthias Kretz]

Hi,

I have a problem with KDirWatch that I just cannot find a way to work with:

In KView the currently shown image is added to the dir watcher:
m_pFileWatch->addFile( m_file );
The dirty signal is connected to slotFileDirty which does a reload of the 
image if the image wasn't modified in KView.

But whenever the image was modified in KView and you call "Save" the 
slotFileDirty slot is called (asynchronous). Problem: KDirWatch apparently 
emits dirty 18 times.

I now have a workaround for KView that disables the slotFileDirty for 100ms 
with a singleShot timer. But this is butt ugly so if there's any way we could 
fix this the right way (TM) I'd be very happy. :-)

I just wrote a testcase to illustrate the point. Do the following:
moc testcase.cpp > testcase.moc
g++ -L$KDEDIR/lib -L$QTDIR/lib -lkio -I$QTDIR/include -I$KDEDIR/include 
testcase.cpp -o testcase
./testcase testfile

I get 271 dirty notifications with that program. :-(

-- 
C'ya
        Matthias
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Matthias.Kretz at urz.uni-heidelberg.de
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