[Bf-python] Problems

[Peter Amstutz]

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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Willian Padovani Germano wrote:

> For maximum speed, Blender would scan the dir once on startup, put all
> header info in a file there -- like menu.txt or whatever -- and use
> directly this file to generate the menu everytime it was needed.  Of
> course, there'd be a command in the scripts menu to force scanning again
> the scripts/ dir without having to re-start Blender.

Incidentally, you can use the system call fstat() on a directory to get
its last modified time, which will be the last time that the contents of
the directory changed (a file was added/deleted/renamed [1]).  I doubt it
would be particularly expensive to check this each time the scripts menu
is opened and re-scan the directory as necessary.  Certainly it would be a
bit more convenient for users :-)

[1] It may even be updated every time any file in the directory is changed
as well, but I'm not sure.

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