Thanks, Klaus. If the Ext.dll will do that, that's great! I'm already using it for something else. I will check into it.
Chris Sheffield Software Developer Read Naturally -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Klaus Major Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:04 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Windows externals Hi Chris, > This is somewhat related to my earlier post about determining the > CD-ROM > drive(s) available on a Windows machine. > > I'm thinking the best thing is going to be to take Mark's suggestion > about > creating an external to call the WinAPI GetDriveType() function. > > So my new question is has anyone done this already? If not, does > anyone > have a shell sample project or something I can use to build the > external? > I've got VC++, but it's been a really long time since I've coded > anything in > C, and I've never created a dll, so I'm pretty clueless about how to > do it. > I've downloaded the external SDK from RunRev, but it's pretty much not > helpful at all. > > If anyone has done this and can offer any advice at all, I would be > eternally grateful. Once upon a time, there was a nice "External Collection" for MetaCard on the old website of RunRev: www.xworlds.com" The win-version (EXT.dll) had exactly that functionality: get cddrive() ## or something... When it was new, it cost 49.95 bucks... Later it was free... (BTW, these externals had been created by Tuviah Snyder! ;-) But the "MetaCard" section (and the link to the external) has been removed recently from that website... Now you find a link to "www.runrev" there ;-) It looks like RunRev has already implemeted parts of these externals into the GUI/engine... (Look into the folder "Revolution 2.x//components/global environment/" and you will find it there ;-) Maybe they will implement THIS feature also into the GUI/engine at some time, who knows...? This may not help much, but i think this is a quite interesting story :-) > Thanks, > > Chris Sheffield > Software Developer > Read Naturally Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.698 / Virus Database: 455 - Release Date: 6/2/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.698 / Virus Database: 455 - Release Date: 6/2/2004 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
