From: Alfonso <rubyeu@...>
Date: 2006-11-22T08:10:45+09:00
Subject: Re: getting volume names in windows

Jan Svitok escribi�:
> On 11/21/06, Alfonso <rubyeu@yahoo.es> wrote:
>> Jan Svitok escribi�:
>> > On 11/20/06, Alfonso <rubyeu@yahoo.es> wrote:
>> >> Does anyone knows how can you get the volume name of a drive in 
>> windows?
>> >> I'm writting a program that should get the name of the cd or dvd
>> >> inserted in the drive. The user selects a directory using a gtk 
>> dialog
>> >> (filechooser), and then I have the path of the folder; but when you
>> >> select a cd/dvd, you get only the letter of the drive (E:\, D:\,...).
>> >>
>> >> I have tried also File.dirname(name_of_a_file_in_the_dvd). It doesn't
>> >> give you the cd/dvd name...
>> >>
>> >> Thank's in advance
>> >
>> > I guess there's some WINAPI (use WIN32API) for that, or WScript (COM
>> > -> use WIN32OLE) or WMI (COM). Just google a bit (and see Programming
>> > Ruby how to use those libs).
>> >
>> >
>> Thank you very much for the idea, I'm going to have a look at that 
>> win32ole
>
> try:
>
> Listing 4.3 Enumerating Disk Drive Properties
>
> 1.      Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> 2.      Set colDrives = objFSO.Drives
> 3.      For Each objDrive in colDrives
> 4.          Wscript.Echo "Available space: " & objDrive.AvailableSpace
> 5.          Wscript.Echo "Drive letter: " & objDrive.DriveLetter
> 6.          Wscript.Echo "Drive type: " & objDrive.DriveType
> 7.          Wscript.Echo "File system: " & objDrive.FileSystem
> 8.          Wscript.Echo "Is ready: " & objDrive.IsReady
> 9.          Wscript.Echo "Path: " & objDrive.Path
> 10.         Wscript.Echo "Root folder: " & objDrive.RootFolder
> 11.         Wscript.Echo "Serial number: " & objDrive.SerialNumber
> 12.         Wscript.Echo "Share name: " & objDrive.ShareName
> 13.         Wscript.Echo "Total size: " & objDrive.TotalSize
> 14.         Wscript.Echo "Volume name: " & objDrive.VolumeName
> 15.     Next
>
> When the script in Listing 4.3 runs under CScript, information similar
> to the following appears in the command window:
>
> Available space: 10234975744
> Drive letter: C
> Drive type: 2
> File system: NTFS
> Free space: 10234975744
> Is ready: True
> Path: C:
> Root folder: C:\
> Serial number: 1343555846
> Share name:
> Total size: 20398661632
> Volume name: Hard Drive
>
> from: 
> http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A2=ind0511d&L=dotnet-winforms&T=0&F=&S=&P=2611 
>
>
> That would be in ruby:
>
> require 'win32ole'
>
> file_system = WIN32OLE.new("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> drives = file_system.Drives
> drives.each do |drive|
>  puts "Available space: #{drive.AvailableSpace}"
>  puts "Drive letter: #{drive.DriveLetter}"
>  puts "Drive type: #{drive.DriveType}"
>  puts "File system: #{drive.FileSystem}"
>  puts "Is ready: #{drive.IsReady}"
>  puts "Path: #{drive.Path}"
>  puts "Root folder: #{drive.RootFolder}"
>  puts "Serial number: #{drive.SerialNumber}"
>  puts "Share name: #{drive.ShareName}"
>  puts "Total size: #{drive.TotalSize}"
>  puts "Volume name: #{drive.VolumeName}"
> end
>
> (beware, not tested code so errors can be there!)
>
>
That's great! Thank's a lot!  I see why there is so many people 
switching to ruby: the incredible comunity :-)

		
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