CD or DVD Drive access on Desktop

[Zenerdiode]

I would like to be able to send an 'Eject Media' command to an optical drive (although there are also open & close commands too) and also lock the drive; so pressing the eject button is ignored.

I thought having a file open for writing would acomplish the latter, however pressing the button opens the drive and then I get a 'delayed write failure'

Many Thanks.

 

[ExcludeReality]

You can make a simple VBScript to eject the CD drive, and then run it from your application.
There's a small delay and it doesn't give you full control, but it was all I could think of.

The forum wouldn't let me post a .vbs file so you'll have to rename this text file to *.vbs

 

[mhc]

You are looking for something like this (attached file)?
It was written in Delphi.
I'm not sure whether B4PPC can handle mciSendString commands.
And what's about WM_ messages and API commands?

Please note that right clicking on the icon in the tray will show a small popup.
You can select locking the CD-Caddy. But this will only prevent to open the caddy via the icon in the tray. Not openning the caddy with the hardware button.