How to get valid drive letters under Windows?
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Without disturbing drives (ie chdir-ing to them) of course. Indeed I wrote a code to do this job: Graphics 800, 600, 32 While Not AppTerminate () Cls j = 0 For i = 0 Until 24 If ChangeDir ( Chr ( i + 67 ) + ":" ) DrawText Chr ( i + 67 ) + ":", 0, j * 10 j :+ 1 End If Next Flip Wend I intentionally didn't include floppy disks and it works fine in full-screen. But in windowed modes, whenever I eject the DVD-ROM tray, a window is poped-up (abort/retry/fail). Is there an alternative way without using this change-directory-hack? |
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Get brucey's BAH.Volumes module - it has a GetDriveLetters() function (or something like that), which does exactly what you're trying to do. |
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What GfK said... |
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another vote for bah. Volumes Also, note that while /most/ floppy drives are restricted to a and b historically, there is no technical reason for that anymore. I know people that have the z: drive associated with their floppy drive, as well as people that mapped a and b to non-floppy usb drives. You really can't make assumptions without checking... |
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I know people that have the z: drive associated with their floppy drive I'm surprised you know anybody that still has a floppy drive. |
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How about this? Get list of valid drives (Windows-only) |
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This shouldn't give the 'insert disk' popup, but if it does, I have a way around it... |
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I'm surprised you know anybody that still has a floppy drive. Heck, we still have some of the old Sony MVC-FD digital cameras at the office that write straight to diskettes instead of memory card. 640x480 pixels, holds around a dozen pics or so per disk. Your tax dollars at work. (At least the USB external floppy drives are twice as fast as the old internal ones) |
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How about this? Get list of valid drives (Windows-only) Seems to work, and also includes network and SUBST-ed drive mappings. For what it's worth: Brucey's bah.volumes can return some extra information, such as volume name, size, free space, and file system (which you can use to differentiate between hard drives and read-only optical media) |