Cd Rom

[fiodal 0]

Can someone help me please...

What is the code to check if the CD ROM exists. And if it does, return the value or drive letter?

Thanks..

[Nutster 2]

Try:

$x = DriveGetType("CDROM") ;Returns an array with all the CD-Rom's drive letters:

if $x[0] >0 Then
     $cdrom = $x[1]
else
     $cdrom = "" ;None found
endif

msgbox(0,"Insert Disk", "Please put the CD-Rom in drive " & $cdrom)

[fiodal 0]

Your a great help

Thank you Nutster

[fiodal 0]

Nutster get an array error..

Where and how do I declare the array?

if $x[0] >0 Then

if $x^ERROR

Error: Subscript used with non-Array variable.

[scriptkitty 1]

Yea, that isn't the right usage, it doesn't return an array:

DriveGetType

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Returns drive type.

DriveGetType ( "path" )

Parameters

path Path of drive to receive information from.

Return Value

Success: Returns the type of drive: "Unknown", "Removable", "Fixed", "Network", "CDROM", "RAMDisk"

Failure: Returns numeric 1 and sets @error to 1.

so usage would be DriveGetType ( "c:\" )

you can do DriveGetDrive ( "CDROM" ) like:

$var = DriveGetDrive( "CDROM" )
If NOT @error Then
    MsgBox(4096,"", "Found " & $var[0] & " drives")
    For $i = 1 to $var[0]
        MsgBox(4096,"Drive " & $i, $var[$i])
    Next
EndIf

just off by a few letters there

or:

$x = DriveGetDrive("CDROM");Returns an array with all the CD-Rom's drive letters:

if $x[0] >0 Then
    $cdrom = $x[1]
else
    $cdrom = "";None found
endif

msgbox(0,"Insert Disk", "Please put the CD-Rom in drive " & $cdrom)

Edited May 1, 2004 by scriptkitty

[herworth 0]

I'm a very simple guy and I use this function

#include - once
local $CDDrive
Func FindCD()
$CDDrive = ""
for $x = 68 to 71
if fileexists(Chr($x) & ":\") then
$CDDrive = Chr($x) & ":\"
exitloop
endif
next
Return $CDDrive
EndFunc

It works fine every time for me.

[Valik 469]

One note, declaring something as Local outside the scope of a function doesn't make it local to the function, it makes it global (Local to global scope is still global to everything else is one way to rationalize that out).

[Nutster 2]

Yea, that isn't the right usage, it doesn't return an array:

just off by a few letters there

or:

$x = DriveGetDrive("CDROM");Returns an array with all the CD-Rom's drive letters:

if $x[0] >0 Then
    $cdrom = $x[1]
else
    $cdrom = "";None found
endif

msgbox(0,"Insert Disk", "Please put the CD-Rom in drive " & $cdrom)

Oops, wrong function. Sorry. Yeah I meant DriveGetDrive, not DriveGetType.