Re: lingo-l cd name/listing from director

2002-08-12 Thread Fabrice Closier
Thank you all (once again) for the great tips... I agree with Andreas, that i can be difficult... but since i wrote similar things in flash, with remote read write, the translation to dir is in mij eyes far more easy, since i make create and manage list and save them as text files on local

Re: lingo-l cd name/listing from director

2002-08-10 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Yea I did it too a while ago. It's more or less a copy of the Mac folder window/ Windows Explorer but with company graphics. It launches applications too, so it can be used as a lecture tool at meetings, fairs etc. The user changes the contents and headlines by putting files and folders in

Re: lingo-l cd name/listing from director

2002-08-10 Thread Tab Julius
You can use the CD Pro Xtra to do this - it'll give you a list of CDs, including volume name. http://www.penworks.com/xtras/cdpro At 04:53 AM 8/10/02, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: Yea I did it too a while ago. It's more or less a copy of the Mac folder window/ Windows Explorer but with

lingo-l cd name/listing from director

2002-08-09 Thread Fabrice Closier
Hi all, is there a way, to read from dir a cd name+content? i mean, if a cd volume is mounted on desktop, i need the cd name and content in order to save those 2 info's to build a local database. Get crazy looking hours for something, somewhere on one of my CD's... it's now time to do something

Re: lingo-l cd name/listing from director

2002-08-09 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Go download the Buddy API xtra, then type -- global buddy on startMovie buddy = xtra(budapi).new() put baDiskList() end -- You will get a list of the available drives. On Windows you can ask for the type of a drive using baDiskInfo(drivename, type). On the Mac I think you could use

Re: lingo-l cd name/listing from director

2002-08-09 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
BTW, it's not a simple task to make a file browser =) -A. Hi all, is there a way, to read from dir a cd name+content? i mean, if a cd volume is mounted on desktop, i need the cd name and content in order to save those 2 info's to build a local database. Get crazy looking hours for something,

Re: lingo-l cd name/listing from director

2002-08-09 Thread Penworks Corporation
You can use the CD Pro Xtra to do this - it'll give you a list of CDs, including volume name. http://www.penworks.com/xtras/cdpro At 11:02 AM 8/9/02, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: Hi all, is there a way, to read from dir a cd name+content? i mean, if a cd volume is mounted on desktop, i need