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  • SGaistS SGaist

    Like suggested in both report, please provide a minimal compilable example.

    For it has two purposes: see what code triggers the problem and allows to build the example on other platforms.

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    stephane78
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    @SGaist I have now uploaded a minimal project to test and display directorychange and filechange but it is not complete because it does'nt add the paths to watcher when adding new path....
    we use Qt -LGPL in our little company and (at home for personal projects)
    if our company buy a commercial license for three months, will be the two bugs be corrected ?

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    • SGaistS SGaist

      Like suggested in both report, please provide a minimal compilable example.

      For it has two purposes: see what code triggers the problem and allows to build the example on other platforms.

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      stephane78
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      @SGaist if this project is not sufficient I will perhaps provide the whole code but this code belongs to my company......
      Buying a commercial license will perhaps help us to solve the two bugs?

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        Paying customer bug will have more weight however I don't know how fast it will make things. I'm not working for the Qt Company and can't comment on such matter.

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        Please read the Qt Code of Conduct - https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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          VRonin
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          Might be worth you looking directly at the source code, see if you can get it sorted yourself, and submit a patch.

          Did you try if other environments are affected too? Any linux distribution for example?

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          • VRoninV VRonin

            Might be worth you looking directly at the source code, see if you can get it sorted yourself, and submit a patch.

            Did you try if other environments are affected too? Any linux distribution for example?

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            stephane78
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            @VRonin I didn't try all the OS, but I can later, but under linux there isn't any difference between del and shift+del like under windows (because I tested that with del under win10 so when you put the folder in the trashcan, but did'nt test really with shift+del...I think with shift+del under win7 it is ok but not sure 100%
            I will do more test so....
            but I have already looked at the code of QFile SystemWatcher for one year because of the older bug and I don't really understand it....if I could understand it I would have made myself the correction.I will try again to look at the code of QFileSystemWatcher

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            • VRoninV VRonin

              Might be worth you looking directly at the source code, see if you can get it sorted yourself, and submit a patch.

              Did you try if other environments are affected too? Any linux distribution for example?

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              stephane78
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              @VRonin OK there is the same problem under linux debian 8 with kde.when you move to thrash a subdirectory watched the signal directorychanged is not emitted and when you delete it with shift+del the signal is emitted...I have just tested now
              under windows 7 I can only delete with shift+del it doesn't allow me to delete with del so there isn't any problem
              I didn't test under mac os

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              • VRoninV VRonin

                Might be worth you looking directly at the source code, see if you can get it sorted yourself, and submit a patch.

                Did you try if other environments are affected too? Any linux distribution for example?

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                stephane78
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                @VRonin I have looked quickly at the source code of QFileSystemWatcher....(Qt5.6.2)
                first I don't find the definition of init() and initPollerEngine() of the class QFileSystemWatcherPrivate (qfilesystemwatcher_p.h) that are called in the constructor of QFileSystemWatcher and in the method addPaths.
                second, I have seen that there is a thread that derivate from QThread for windows, QWindowsFileSystemWatcherEngineThread, and the method run is redefinited l332 in qfilesystemwatcher_win.cpp,so that I understand it but don't understand all the details in the method run...

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                • VRoninV VRonin

                  Might be worth you looking directly at the source code, see if you can get it sorted yourself, and submit a patch.

                  Did you try if other environments are affected too? Any linux distribution for example?

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                  stephane78
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                  @VRonin I have seen where it emits the signal directoryChanged when the directory is deleted l.388 and l.385 I see if(fakeRemove||!fileInfo.exists()) but I don't understand the other things well.....

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                  • VRoninV VRonin

                    Might be worth you looking directly at the source code, see if you can get it sorted yourself, and submit a patch.

                    Did you try if other environments are affected too? Any linux distribution for example?

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                    stephane78
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                    @VRonin I have looked too at the win32 functions findfirstchangenotification (used l.160) and find nextchangenotification (used l.364)....I think I must use a debug version of Qt to debug that because perhaps there is no change notification on the handle when we use a simple del to delete a directory ie send it to trashcan(without shift) ?

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                    • VRoninV VRonin

                      Might be worth you looking directly at the source code, see if you can get it sorted yourself, and submit a patch.

                      Did you try if other environments are affected too? Any linux distribution for example?

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                      stephane78
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                      @VRonin or perhaps the error l.367 is another error than ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED that should be considered too and the that fakeRemove should be put to true too (or another boolean )

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                      • VRoninV VRonin

                        Might be worth you looking directly at the source code, see if you can get it sorted yourself, and submit a patch.

                        Did you try if other environments are affected too? Any linux distribution for example?

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                        stephane78
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                        @VRonin what are the other errors of FindNextChangeNotification?didn't find them in the win32 msdn documentation.
                        And I don't really know how to do debug of Qt ? because it is in QtCore,so I suppose I must take the project and source of QtCore, but my test project use not only QtCore but QtGui and QtWidget too....

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                          I'll take a quick look and see if I can spot something in the source, no promises though

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                          • VRoninV VRonin

                            I'll take a quick look and see if I can spot something in the source, no promises though

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                            stephane78
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                            @VRonin Thank you vronin, do you know how I can debug QtCore (or corelib or io) with my test project synchro as executable with QtCreator and mingw-w64(the compiler of qt.io).I suppose I must take the source (single,the .zip) but don't really know how to do that.my project synchro uses core,gui and widget but I suppose I must open corelib or io as project in QtCreator

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                            • VRoninV VRonin

                              I'll take a quick look and see if I can spot something in the source, no promises though

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                              stephane78
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                              @VRonin do you know how to get the version 5.6.2 of qtbase from code.qt.io with git? (to build it in debug and try to debug corelib)

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                                Just clone the repository and check out the 5.6 branch

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                                On a crusade to banish setIndexWidget() from the holy land of Qt

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                                • VRoninV VRonin

                                  Just clone the repository and check out the 5.6 branch

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                                  stephane78
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                                  @VRonin ok thanks vronin...

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                                  • VRoninV VRonin

                                    Just clone the repository and check out the 5.6 branch

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                                    stephane78
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                                    @VRonin it is done.but to debug qfilesystemwatcher should I open corelib.pro in QtCreator (QtCore) and build it debug and put breakpoints and attach to my app synchro ?

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                                    • VRoninV VRonin

                                      Just clone the repository and check out the 5.6 branch

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                                      stephane78
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                                      @VRonin I want to put a breakpoint l.364 of QFileSystemWatcher_win.cpp and watch error l365

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                                      • VRoninV VRonin

                                        Just clone the repository and check out the 5.6 branch

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                                        stephane78
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                                        @VRonin there is "attach to unstarted application" and "debug an external application" in Qtcreator\debug. is it possible to use one this option to debug QtCore (corelib) with my app synchro.exe ?

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                                        • VRoninV VRonin

                                          Just clone the repository and check out the 5.6 branch

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                                          stephane78
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                                          @VRonin when building corelib I have this error ..\corelib\global\qt_pch.h:50:21: fatal error: qglobal.h: No such file or directory
                                          #include <qglobal.h>
                                          qglobal.h is in the directory but I think I lacks an environment variable ?

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