Tim Roberts wrote: > Tim Golden wrote: >> It's actually made a bit easier by using >> the Win32_DeviceChange event under WMI >> (you will not be surprised to hear me say!) >> >> But once you've got the fact that the device has >> changed, I'm not sure where you go from there... > > I admit that WMI is not my strong suit, but using the WMI object browser > on my machine, I find that Win32_SystemDevices contains a key called > Win32_USBHub which contains DeviceID entries for all of the USB devices > on my computer. I have never attempted it, but I suspect that's all the > OP would need. > > And actually, since I *think* he said he was working with a printer, he > may be able to look at the Win32_Printer collection instead.
(I spend most of my WMI time doing detective work like that!) I think what I meant was that the OP wanted to step through some kind installation process when the device was initiated. At least, I think that's what he wanted to do. And I'm not sure how much closer the WMI device objects take you to that dialog, which presumably just pops up. TJG _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
