Re: xpburncd - I swear it did work!

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From: jook (spam_at_example.invalid)
Date: 01/29/05


Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:48:16 GMT

jook <spam@example.invalid> wrote in news:QrLKd.14759$v8.14088
@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

> "Bernie Yaeger" <berniey@cherwellinc.com> wrote in
news:OFeQBZcBFHA.3824
> @TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
>
>> Hi Jo,
>>
>> You are THE MAN! Your revised component, with clear() and close()
> methods,
>> plus the call of these after the burncomplete event did the trick
>>
>> Thanks so much!
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>> "jook" <spam@example.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:yFyKd.9902$B5.4653@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>> "Bernie Yaeger" <berniey@cherwellinc.com> wrote in
> news:uYWsIsXBFHA.2196
>>> @TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jo,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry; I can't get in. I tried IE first, then Cute FTP - I tried
>>>> ftp.sep.myftp.org and then sep.myftp.org - neither worked in either
>>> place.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know when it's repaired or if I'm doing something wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Tx,
>>>>
>>>
>>> Mmy router seems to be bust, it stops transferring files after a few
> mins.
>>> I've reset it.
>>>
>>> files are on web now too:
>>> http://www.svenedin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/vbburner/vbburner.zip
>>> http://www.svenedin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/vbburner/XPBurn.zip
>>
>
> I worked out some other stuff last night.
> The call to work out the free space is worng. It actually tells you
the
> used space in the staging area. It only changes when files are added
by
> imapi (not by the vb program or by the xpburn component. In other
words
> it is useless unless I manage to re-write the component. (I'd like to
> strip the component down to be just a wrapper - so that I can call all
> the imapi methods and properties from vb).
> The thing can still get stuck - I've had disks that the program can't
> erase, but windows can. There are lots more conditions to check as
well -
> is there a cd inserted, is something being burnt as the program
starts.
> I was trying to figure out how to get the cd drive letter - the
> xpburncomponent can return the path, by which it means the "nt device
> path" which is /ide0/cdrom0. I can't see how to map that back to the
> drive letter - there is some stuff about it in the msdn library but it
is
> for device driver writers. I'll have a rummage through the registry
and
> see if I can find a way to do it. You could get a user with two
identical
> burner drives, and the user would be unable to distinguish between
them.
> Unfortunately XP lets you remap the drive letters, so you can't just
name
> them as they would appear in dos (lowest bus, lowest drive gets the
> lowest letter, hard disks before cds).
> I'll play some more. I'll start a new thread sometime and probably
update
> the program on planetsourcecode.
>

Oh, and I found an imapi wrapper, so I'll see how it works now I
understand it a bit better:
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/NET/Code/Libraries/Writing_CDs/IMAPI/a
rticle.asp



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