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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Finding filenames of KConfig objects
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-07-21 21:36:10
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On Monday 21 July 2003 23:04, Petter E. Stokke wrote:
> Is there a way to determine the exact filesystem path to which a KConfig
> object refers (ie. the file to which it reads/writes)? I thought I'd try
> to be clever and have my application automatically detect even manual
> changes to its config file by using KDirWatch, but my inability to come
> up with any way to figure out which file to watch kind of defeats it.

It reads from a number of files, but the one most likely to change is the one 
to which it writes its changes. You can find that one with:
  locateLocal("config", file);

Where file is the argument that was passed to the KConfig constructor.

> Or is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do?

No, but I will try to add something for KDE 3.2.

Cheers,
Waldo
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