How to get CD-ROM's label

[song]

Is there any function to get CD-ROM's label?

[cksiow]

try

Debug.Print Dir("f:", vbVolume)

where f: is your cdrom drive

HTH

cksiow
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[song]

Thank you for your reply, but I am not very fimilar with VB, I copy the code you told me, then run it. There are something wrong with the sentence : Debug.Print Dir("f:", vbVolume).
It is said that "Debug" is a invalid outside procedure. Do I have to write other code before run it?
Thank you

[cksiow]

ok do it this way, put a label in your form called it label1, then in your form load event procedure put this

Private Sub Form_Load()
label1.caption = Dir("f:", vbVolume)
End Sub

HTH

[song]

Do you test the code on your computer? why it doesn't work in my program. I do as you told me, but label1.caption ="" after execute the sentence label1.caption = Dir("f:", vbVolume)
Bother you to check it again!

[Cimperiali]

Code is ok, provided you cd - rom is volume f.
Matter is: you get back an empty string if volume has no label...

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[Cimperiali]

You may want to try with api:
(from api-guide - download this: it will help you a lot in the future)


Private Declare Function GetVolumeInformation Lib "Kernel32" Alias "GetVolumeInformationA" (ByVal lpRootPathName As String, ByVal lpVolumeNameBuffer As String, ByVal nVolumeNameSize As Long, lpVolumeSerialNumber As Long, lpMaximumComponentLength As Long, lpFileSystemFlags As Long, ByVal lpFileSystemNameBuffer As String, ByVal nFileSystemNameSize As Long) As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
'KPD-Team 1998
'URL: http://www.allapi.net/
'E-Mail: KPDTeam@Allapi.net
Dim Serial As Long, VName As String, FSName As String
'Create buffers
VName = String$(255, Chr$(0))
FSName = String$(255, Chr$(0))
'Get the volume information
'change "c:\" to your Cd-rom letter
GetVolumeInformation "C:\", VName, 255, Serial, 0, 0, FSName, 255
'Strip the extra chr$(0)'s
VName = Left$(VName, InStr(1, VName, Chr$(0)) - 1)
FSName = Left$(FSName, InStr(1, FSName, Chr$(0)) - 1)
MsgBox "The Volume name of C:\ is '" + VName + "', the File system name of C:\ is '" + FSName + "' and the serial number of C:\ is '" + Trim(Str$(Serial)) + "'", vbInformation + vbOKOnly, App.Title
End Sub

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[cksiow]

you should replace f: with your own cdrom drive.