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Re: Question about WM_DEVICECHANGE

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From: Kris
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:04
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:23:43 -0800, "Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)"
<no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote:
>So?  You can filter those out before deciding to scan your devices.  Or,
>don't even scan at all.  Use the details inside those notifications to
>add/remove just those specific items to/from your list instead of refreshing
>the entire list as a whole, since notifications are sent on a per-device
>basis to begin with.

I totally missed the fact that DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL and
DBT_DEVICEREMOVECOMPLETE contained extra information about the event.
Thanks for pointing that out. This should help a lot.

>Are you sure you have that right?  You get a removal notification when you
>connect a device, and an arrival notification when you remove it?
Oops. I accidentally swapped the two. They should of course be
reversed.

Thanks for the info. I should now have sufficient info to implement
WM_DEVICECHANGE properly.

Regards,

Kris
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