Whil I don't know what camera you use, XP DOES treat removable USB devices differently based upon their type.
In the case of a camera, it uses WIA (Windows Image Aquisition) API to connect and handle dealing with the camera. I'd suggest checking the WIA API's. --- Roger Boyesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The camera does not require any extra software in XP to operate. > As soon as you connect the camera to the USB port, Xp detects it as > a digital camera and adds an icon in explorer, but it does not map the camera > to a drive letter. > > Roger Boyesen > > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne av > Stephen Posey > Sendt: 20. november 2006 17:41 > Til: Borland's Delphi Discussion List > Emne: Re: Drag and drop from a camera connected to USB port > > > ---- Borland's Delphi Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I have a small problem.... > > I'm using D.Melanders drag & drop components (v.4.0) in one of my > > applications. > > I want to drag and drop pictures straight from a Canon Powershot S80 > > into my application, but the drag and drop components does not support > > drag and drop from a USB device (must be a drive letter). > > Does anybody know how to do this in code ? > > I'm using Delphi 5 Enterprise. > > The reason for the need to drag the pictures into my app is that my > > users allways use max resolution on the camera, but I want to resize > > all pics to 1600x1200 and compress them a little bit before sending > > the pictures to the archive. > > This works perfect in my app from Explorer if you have the pictures on > > a local disk or a network drive, but not straight from the camera. > > Hmmm, my experience with digital USB cameras is that they all map their image > storage as a removeable drive when you link them to the PC. > > I suspect if you check Explorer or My Computer after hooking up the camera > you'll see there's a drive letter mapped that represents the camera's image > storage. > > Now, the particular camera you're using may have installed its own > proprietary viewing software that it registers to be brought up when the > camera is attached; and that software may well NOT support shell drag and > drop (can you drag and drop images from it into an Explorer folder?). > > If that's the case and you can't get your users to skip the software and use > the mapped drive in Explorer instead, there's not much to be done about it > except complain to the software writers and ask them to add drag and drop. > > Or perhaps you could replace or supplement the registered viewer application > with your own that references the camera's storage? That way the user > wouldn't even have to bother with drag and drop; your app could serve as a > direct interface onto the images. > > HTH > > Stephen Posey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
