Re: How to determine that CD-drive is empty?

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:05

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Simon Macneall wrote:
>none of which works correctly. As far as I can tell mpOpen is whether the  
>media is open, not the drawer.
>and closing the drawer and waiting for it to spin up and checking a file  
>is not a very nice solution either. There must be a way of doing it, as  
>WinDVD does it all correctly.

Is IDiscRecorder of any help?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devio/base/idiscrecorder.asp
See also
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devio/base/rsm_media_change_detection.asp?frame=true
Hmm.. both XP solutions.....

Also see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devio/base/detecting_media_insertion_or_removal.asp?frame=true
Talks about WM_DEVICECHANGE
And
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devio/base/device_management_control_codes.asp?frame=true

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