Open a CD/DVD drive

[timmay3141]

I was wondering how to open a CD drive. I looked online and found you can use the mciSendString function to open the audio CD drive, but what if I want a DVD-ROM drive to open instead, and they have both a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM like me? How can I detect which of these drives they have and use this information to open a specific one?

 

[timmay3141]

I forgot - I'd also like to detect if it is already open or not. If it is already open, I obviously don't want to tell it to open. It might not hurt anything, but I'd still like to know.

 

[mseth]

you can look into the MCI part of windows. it has a function, mciSendString.

the string to send is "set cdaudio door open"
to close it you send "set cdaudio door closed"

Hope this helps.