FileSystemWatcher Problem

[nikhilparchure]

I am using FileSystemWatcher to monitor File movement in some File folders.
Have added some events to handle file/files added to that directory (Created).
The directory might contain file with different extensions
eg : .txt , .rtf , .doc , .xls
I would like the event to be fired only when ( .txt Or .rtf ) files are added to the directory.

The FileSystemWatcher has a property
FileSystemWatcher.Filter = ".extension" to watch particular extension.

To Watch all the files
FileSystemWatcher.Filter = "*.*"
which would filter the files that the watcher might be screening.

But I would like to have Single Watcher to monitor two type of files eg: .rtf Or .txt
I tried FileSystemWatcher.Filter = ".rtf , .txt" but this not work.

Any solution for the above problem.


Nikhil.....

 

[obislavu]

You should create two FileSystemWatcher objects in this case. The both objects could be in the same thread or in different threads.
-obislavu-

 

[nikhilparchure]

Thanks for that....
Yaa thats true but can this be done using a single filesystemwatcher object.

I checkedout .NET help with regards to this , it says that the filter property follows "dir" comand format

With that respect if I want only .txt and .rtf files to be displayed than I use the [dir *.txt , *.rtf ] comand

So if the use the same in the Filter property it should work
But it doesn't
Thanks anyways

Nikhil