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| Thread ID: 41098 | 2003-12-30 04:37:00 | CD ROM Control | NIGGEL (2358) | Press F1 |
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| 204110 | 2003-12-30 09:16:00 | Thanks soooo much for telling us you don't have a problem with this peter. Don't waste the space when there are others who have some good constructive advice. | NIGGEL (2358) | ||
| 204111 | 2003-12-30 09:20:00 | Thanks Whetu ,That works but is not really the one touch solutionn I was looking for. | NIGGEL (2358) | ||
| 204112 | 2003-12-30 09:32:00 | Thanks exLL, I have heard of the cupholder joke so I knew there must be some way of controlling the CD tray by software. Never thought of using the joke to achieve the goal but why not? | NIGGEL (2358) | ||
| 204113 | 2003-12-30 09:37:00 | WinXP Pro | Elephant (599) | ||
| 204114 | 2003-12-30 09:47:00 | LOL Have downloaded Cupholder & it's brilliant , drawer opens, drawer closes, could keep me amused for hours , but how did you make the keyboard shortcuts? Oh and to get you thinking some more ,how can I control the other CD drive as well? | NIGGEL (2358) | ||
| 204115 | 2003-12-30 10:33:00 | Remember I am only on Win 98 and haven't a clue how it will work in any other OS, but this is what I did. Downloaded cupholder to Desktop. Checked it with Nortons for viruses. It showed a "cupholder.exe" icon on my desktop. I right clicked and dragged it across a little, released it and chose copy here. That put a shorcut beside the .exe on the desktop also. (I think you need that shortcut icon, as opposed to the .exe icon, in order to assign a keystroke shortcut) I right clicked the shortcut and clicked on properties. In the resulting window, midway down there is a box that says shortcut key and it will list it as 'none'. Place your cursor at the start of the word none (delete it if you want to, don't think it matters though), then press ctr+alt together. It will automatically show ctr+alt+ ........ Then think of a letter that you would like to assign to the action, I chose H for holder, and press H. Then click apply at the bottom of the window and ok your way out. Once back at the desktop press Ctr+Alt+H and it will open the prog. (By the way it can be any two keys that are not otherwise used as keyboard shortcuts, such as Shift+Alt, or Ctr+Shift etc., followed by a letter of your choice. Better not to use the Function keys though.) I then dragged the orig .exe icon to another part of my computer to get it off the desktop. For taskbar usage, I dragged the shortcut icon to the taskbar and released it. That seems to be the quickest method I feel. I hope that works for you. |
exLL (515) | ||
| 204116 | 2003-12-30 11:12:00 | Sorry, I didn't reply to your query about the second cd drive. Unfortunately I can't help on that one. I really don't know much about computers. (Been around for yonks, still know nothing. LOL) Re the icon on the taskbar, that really is fairly quick. One left click, opens the pop up box and a second click opens the cd drawer. (I have my mouse pointer set so that it automatically hovers over an option box in any window that opens, in this case over the [extend cupholder] button, so no mouse movement is required). To close the drawer, I have to hover the mouse over the [retract cupholder] button and left click, or alternatively, ignore the mouse and press the tab key followed by enter. Finally, those keyboard shorcuts are quite handy, I use them for lots of things such as; clipboard viewer ctr+alt+v, volume control ctr+shift+v, calculator ctr+alt+c, notepad ctr+alt+n, windows explorer ctr+alt+e, Press f1 ctr+alt+f. Cheers :) |
exLL (515) | ||
| 204117 | 2003-12-30 23:07:00 | Many thanks exll. As luck would have it the cupholder works on my slave drive which is the one I use most so the other is not really an issue, but if anybody else wants to try this neat little trick swapping the master/slave jumpers might allow you to control the other drive. | NIGGEL (2358) | ||
| 204118 | 2003-12-30 23:19:00 | Have just found what you were taking about exll - it's some Javascript coding :) . <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript"> <!-- Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer . OCX . 7" ) Set colCDROMs = oWMP . cdromCollection if colCDROMs . Count >= 1 then For i = 0 to colCDROMs . Count - 1 colCDROMs . Item(i) . Eject Next ' cdrom End If --> </SCRIPT> |
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| 204119 | 2003-12-31 00:49:00 | Thats clever .....................now how do you close it with a simple script ? | drcspy (146) | ||
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