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+# joomer-efsw-file-monitoring
+Watch folder for images and flip them
+
+# Demonstrates
+- file monitoring
+
+# Usage
+
+```
+joomer-ftxui-file-monitoring 
+- drag and drop files into the path folder
+```
+
+[todo] 
+
+# Build 
+```
+learndir/
+└── joomer-ftxui-file-monitoring/
+
+```
+
+- Download and Install Premake
+
+## Ubuntu Linux (kasm-ubuntu)
+```
+mkdir learndir
+cd learndir
+git clone https://git.indoodle.com/jason/joomer-efsw-file-monitoring.git
+cd joomer-ftxui-file-browser
+make all
+bin/Linux/release/joomer-ftxui-file-monitoring
+```
+
+## Windows (win10 enterprise)
+- Download Visual Studio Community Edition 2022
+- Run VisualStudioSetup.exe
+- Workload = [x] Desktop developemnt with C++
+- Individial components = [x] Git For Windows
+
+Run **x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2022**
+```
+mkdir learndir
+cd learndir
+git clone https://git.indoodle.com/jason/joomer-ftxui-file-monitoring.git
+cd joomer-ftxui-file-monitoring
+msbuild joomer-ftxui-file-monitoring.vcxproj /t:Build /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=x64
+bin\Debug\joomer-ftxui-file-monitoring.exe
+```
+
+For a prototype app we can just dump the stb headers right into the joomer-efsw-file-monitoring/src dir for simplicity
+```
+curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image.h
+curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image_write.h
+make all -j4
+```
+