Javascript to AutoIt | Working with Drives and Folders conversion

[Glyph]

;FileSystemObject (FSO) Working with Drives and Folders
;Converted from Javascript to AutoIt by Glyph
;Converted from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ch28h2s7(VS.85).aspx
$Path = "c:"
ShowDriveInfo($Path)
func ShowDriveInfo($drvPath)
   Dim $fso, $drv, $s
   $fso = ObjCreate("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   $drv = $fso.GetDrive($fso.GetDriveName($drvPath))
   $s = "Drive " & $drvPath & " - "
   $s = $s & $drv.VolumeName & @crlf
   $s = $s & "Total Space: " & $drv.TotalSize / 1024
   $s = $s & " Kb" & @crlf
   $s = $s & "Free Space: " & $drv.FreeSpace / 1024
   $s = $s & " Kb" & @crlf
  msgbox(0,"",$s)
Endfunc

Original code:

function ShowDriveInfo1(drvPath)
{
   var fso, drv, s ="";
   fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
   drv = fso.GetDrive(fso.GetDriveName(drvPath));
   s += "Drive " + drvPath.toUpperCase()+ " - ";
   s += drv.VolumeName + "<br>";
   s += "Total Space: " + drv.TotalSize / 1024;
   s += " Kb" + "<br>"; 
   s += "Free Space: " + drv.FreeSpace / 1024;
   s += " Kb" + "<br>";
   Response.Write(s);
}

Just thought I would share, i'm getting into javascript now

[Pain]

Unfortunately AutoIt already have DriveSpaceFree() and DriveSpaceTotal() functions.

[jvanegmond]

I think this is a more accurate translation:

func ShowDriveInfo($drvPath)
   Dim $fso, $drv, $s
   $fso = ObjCreate("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   $drv = $fso.GetDrive($fso.GetDriveName($drvPath))
   $s &= "Drive " & $drvPath & " - "
   $s &= $drv.VolumeName & @crlf
   $s &="Total Space: " & $drv.TotalSize / 1024
   $s &=" Kb" & @crlf
   $s &= "Free Space: " & $drv.FreeSpace / 1024
   $s &= " Kb" & @crlf
  msgbox(0,"",$s)
Endfunc

[Glyph]

Unfortunately AutoIt already have DriveSpaceFree() and DriveSpaceTotal() functions.

But then, you learn nothing.

[Pain]

Why make it more complicated than it has to be?

[Kip]

make it more complicated than it has to be

Sounds like a perfect C++ motto. Edited November 2, 2008 by Kip

[Glyph]

Why make it more complicated than it has to be?

Tell that to linux developers, it's similair because you're dictated by a command in autoit, you can control it more with WMI.

This is only an example, there are many more WMI scripts that autoit simply does not have (yet?).

For example, to detect a video card. I don't see a function in autoit for that, I see one in WMI though.

And so we are clear, WMI can be used in many languages.

With my example, a newbie can learn WMI and make his own script to detect video cards.

[Pain]

WMI is great and I use it from time to time, a great tool is the Scriptomatic tool for AutoIt. However as far as I can see your script doesn't use WMI, but another object so it would be more correct to say the example show how to use objects and how to add additional functions to AutoIt.

[Glyph]

WMI is great and I use it from time to time, a great tool is the Scriptomatic tool for AutoIt. However as far as I can see your script doesn't use WMI, but another object so it would be more correct to say the example show how to use objects and how to add additional functions to AutoIt.

Agreed, I was thinking of my other script while I write that reply, lol.

I was working on a script with a buddy of mine involving WMI and we got stuck on a couple things at the time, I was in the "WMI mindset".

Scriptomatic is a very nice tool, easily adaptable to any script too!