Get a drive

spookie · May 18, 2005

Hi,
I am making an application which contains content in html files which will be bundeled in a CD and will be distributed to the students.
The directory structure of the application is
ModuleName=>
Topic1=>
content1.htm
content2.htm
content3.htm
content3.htm
Topic2=>
content1.htm
content2.htm
content3.htm
content3.htm
Now i want to read the files serially and display the content with a link to next file.
Intially since it will be given in a CD, i was trying to find the name of the CD drive on the user machine using filesystemobject, but still unsucessfull.
Can someone help me in that or some other way to read the file content ?

Thanks in advance.

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BillyRayPreachersSon · May 19, 2005

You would use the driveType property to determine which drive was a CD-Drive:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/jsprodrivetype.asp

However, two things to note:

1. If the computer has multile CD (or DVD) drives, they will all show up, so you need to have a better way of detecting which one you are currently using (such as parsing the URL).

2. This will work on IE only.

Hope this helps,
Dan

[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]
[banghead]

spookie · May 19, 2005

Great, thanks for the answer.
But i need the code to be compatible to NN and Opera also.
Got to do it by some other way..?

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BillyRayPreachersSon · May 19, 2005

Why do you need to know the drive letter? If you use relative links, you do not need this.

Dan

[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]
[banghead]

spookie · May 19, 2005

Absolutely..I am finding a way how can i do this using relative path..
right now i am using following code which works on IE..but not sure the this will work on other browsers..pls advice

Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var fso, f, fc, s;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
f = fso.GetFolder("d:\\path");
fc = new Enumerator(f.files);

for (; !fc.atEnd(); fc.moveNext()) {
	alert(fc.item().name + "\n" + fc.item().type);
}
-->
</SCRIPT>

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