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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Finding filenames of KConfig objects
From:       "Petter E. Stokke" <gibreel () project23 ! no>
Date:       2003-07-22 0:43:14
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On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:36, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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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.

That worked like a charm. Thanks. :)

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