Add support for 'Command' WorkingDirectory

[MusicMan74]

Hello and thanks for FileWatcher!

I am currently using FW to monitor file changes and run an EXE on a change.

My issue is that the command line executable I'm running uses the "WorkingDirectory".
I can work around this limitation if I launch FW.exe from the desired "WorkingDirectory", i.e.

C:\Users\User\Desktop\Repo1>c:\Portable\FileWatcher\fw.exe

However, if I need to monitor files from two different folders (i.e. define two configuration xml nodes), I can't run FW from both folder locations :)
[Unless I run two instances of FW?]

Therefore, does it make sense/possible to add a 'WorkingDirectory' XML 'Command' sub-node in the configuration file which would be applied when the EXE is run?

i.e.

`

<watch>
    <!--
        The path of the Mercurial repository I'm monitoring:
         -->
	<path>C:\Users\User\Desktop\Repo1</path>
	<commands>
		<command>
			<triggers>
				<trigger>Change</trigger>
			</triggers>                      
			<workingdirectory>C:\Users\User\Desktop\Repo1</workingdirectory>
			<path>C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\thg.exe</path>
			<arguments>commit "[exactpath]"</arguments>
		</command>
	</commands>                   
</watch>
<watch>
    <!--
        The path of the Mercurial repository I'm monitoring:
    -->
	<path>C:\Users\User\Desktop\Repo2</path>
	<commands>
		<command>
			<triggers>
				<trigger>Change</trigger>
			</triggers>
			<workingdirectory>C:\Users\User\Desktop\Repo2</workingdirectory>
			<path>C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\thg.exe</path>
			<arguments>commit "[exactpath]"</arguments>
		</command>
	</commands>                   
</watch>

`

Thanks in advance for your time :)

[TechieGuy12]

I have added the working directory tag to the 1.5.2 beta release: https://github.com/TechieGuy12/FileWatcher/releases/tag/1.5.2-beta.1.

Check to see if it works for you?

[MusicMan74]

Hi,

Thanks for responding.
I tried the new binary (SHA-1 28eee7595623815bcf3004ebbcae3bd05c7dfe66) and updated my config file but the tag does not seem to take effect...

<watches> <watch> <path>C:\Users\Greg\Desktop\Repo2</path> <commands> <command> <triggers> <trigger>Change</trigger> </triggers> <workingdirectory>C:\Users\Greg\Desktop\Repo2</workingdirectory> <path>C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\thg.exe</path> <arguments>commit "[exactpath]"</arguments> </command> </commands> </watch> </watches>

I tried with and without trailing backslash, ( i.e. Repo2\ ) but no luck
Is my syntax incorrect?

I can't see what you changed since there is nothing to compare in commit 3ab7185;
also the source code zips in the 1.5.2-Beta1 assets are identical to the release from 2023.12.29...

Could you add logging to confirm WorkingDirectory is being read correctly and/or actually used?

Again, thanks for your time :)

[TechieGuy12]

I forgot to mention the tag in the XML file is workingDirectory with a capital 'D'.

The commit for the beta is in the develop branch.

[MusicMan74]

Working as expected with the right syntax :)
workingDirectory

I presumed all lower case based on 1) my original example config and 2) all lower case used for other config multiword tags, i.e. waitbefore

Again, thanks for fix :)