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How to engrave a file on CD (write files on a CD)
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 7:23 pm
by Julien
Hello
I have a question :
How to engrave a file on CD (write files on a CD) ?
That possible ?
Thank
Julien
Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 12:10 am
by freak
Is that a joke
Have you ever heard of some program that does that (i mean write on
any type of CD, even not CDRW) ?
Or do you want to create a CD-burning tool?
Timo
Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 12:24 am
by PB
> Is that a joke
I don't think it was.
> Or do you want to create a CD-burning tool?
I think that's exactly what he wants to do.
Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 12:51 am
by freak
On WindowsXP, there is a COM Interface, to burn CDs. But as that is a
bit hard to call from PB atm (ricardo?
), and your app will ONLY
work with XP then, better go search for some DLL to do that.
Timo
Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 4:15 am
by waffle
i thought that once the CD became write enabled (formatted or at least recognized as writable) that you could access it just as a floppy and the OS would handle the details with the CD Drivers. But, you would not be able to support RAW format or write to specific tracks and so forth. Or support mixed mode CD. Also, that might not even be possible for some OS (XP saves files until ordered to burn, W98 will just try to burn reguardless). But that may also depend on specific CD Drivers too i guess.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 2:39 pm
by Jose
Nero CD burning software provide software+drivers that allow you to create a formated CD, that then behaves like a hard drive. Only works with CD-RW cd's, I think it's called InCD and is available with latest Nero software.
So in this case it should be just like writting to the hard drive
hope that helps
Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 9:41 am
by hypervox
Something I've been looking at is CDRTools. These are a set of command line tools originally for unix but also available for windows, that you can use to create ISO images and burn them to CD.
As you can call external programs via PB, you could use these to do the work.
Have a look at
http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ which has the tools, and a nifty front end.
Rgrds
Hypervox
Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 7:23 pm
by ricardo
freak wrote:On WindowsXP, there is a COM Interface, to burn CDs. But as that is a
bit hard to call from PB atm (ricardo?
), and your app will ONLY
work with XP then, better go search for some DLL to do that.
Timo
Hi,
This weekend i will release it finally. Im testing it on my PC to find bugs, i think its ok now.
(*If i can i will add a cd-burning example using a third party ocx -shareware im afraid-)