New Media Ignorance on parade (OpenInsight 32-bit Specific)
At 14 AUG 2006 06:32:14PM Jim Eagan wrote:
I realize that CD's & DVD's are very different media from floppies
but aren't operating systems suppossed to deal with such things? As floppies disappear more and more what are we to do about writing to
other media? There was a reference from Steve Smith that provided a
way but not an easy one. Help please (and easy on this old dude).
Thanks!
At 17 AUG 2006 08:31AM Steve Smith wrote:
Jim,
Are you looking to back up files to CD as part of the application?
Windows Media Player has the ability to burn CDs in version 11.
I'll see if I can make sense of the necessary API calls - if if looks easy I'll publish some code here.
Steve
At 17 AUG 2006 09:48AM Jim Eagan wrote:
Thanks Steve, Yes I would like to write the backup zip file to CD.
There is also an ascii file that gets sent to an outside agency on a
regular basis. Most of my users are unable or are fearful of carrying out simple file copy procedures unfortunately. So it's up to me. Thanks again. Jim
At 25 AUG 2006 03:44PM Jim Eagan wrote:
NOBODY HAS AN ANSWER???? Why not? It would seem to be something that
many, many developers would encounter……
At 25 AUG 2006 06:21PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Jim,
Windows XP has a CD burning API but it's implemented via the COM and I think you'd probably need a DLL or OLE control as a wrapper to access it.
Most other CD burning software such as Nero has an API that you can use from your app, though perhaps there are other generic 3rd party components that will handle it - I'm sure I've seen a Delphi VCL component to do it on the net somewhere…
It would seem to be something that many, many developers would encounter……
To be honest we'd never had a reason to do this :)
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