notification for cd insertion

[Fredrik Lundh]

Qiangning Hong <hongqn at gmail.com> wrote:

>I want one of my function to execute when a cdrom is inserted.  How can I achieve that?
>
> Further more, I want to do different things depend on the inserted disc type: if it is a normal 
> cd-rom, read from it; if it is a recordable cd, write data on it.  So, how can I get the inserted 
> disc type infomation in Python code?

1) figure out how notifications work.  typing your subject line into a google
   search box and clicking "I feel lucky" brings up this page:

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;163503

2) figure out how to handle an WM_DEVICECHANGE event in the UI
   framework you're using; this is a framework issue, not a Python issue
   (Python doesn't process Windows events by itself).

3) check the "REFERENCES" section on the above page for more details.

hope this helps!

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