1. CD Burning & Euphoria
Hello All!
I am wondering if anyone has ever done anything with Euphoria (under
Windows) where CD burning is concerned. Specifically, would any of you
know of any command-line tools or libraries that I could use in my
project? I've looked into builds of mkisofs and cdrecord for Windows, but
these apparently require Cygwin to be installed. I've also looked into the
NeroSDK, but this requires Nero to be installed on the target system, and
its license seems a little too restrictive for what I'm wanting to do ...
create a backup application that stores files to CD-ROM.
The best scenario would be to find a command-line tool or C library (or
better yet, 
Euphoria library) that is released under the GPL or similar
license.
If anybody can think of something, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Travis Beaty
Osage, Iowa.
2. Re: CD Burning & Euphoria
In windows XP it would be possible to wrap the built in CDburning libraries.
I dont actualy know wich *.dll's they are. It would requre a little
research.
However this aproach leaves no scope for other platforms.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Beaty" <twbeaty at osage.net>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: CD Burning & Euphoria
>
>
> Hello All!
>
> I am wondering if anyone has ever done anything with Euphoria (under
> Windows) where CD burning is concerned. Specifically, would any of you
> know of any command-line tools or libraries that I could use in my
> project? I've looked into builds of mkisofs and cdrecord for Windows, but
> these apparently require Cygwin to be installed. I've also looked into
the
> NeroSDK, but this requires Nero to be installed on the target system, and
> its license seems a little too restrictive for what I'm wanting to do ...
> create a backup application that stores files to CD-ROM.
>
> The best scenario would be to find a command-line tool or C library (or
> better yet, Euphoria library) that is released under the GPL or
similar
> license.
>
> If anybody can think of something, it would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Travis Beaty
> Osage, Iowa.
>
>
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3. Re: CD Burning & Euphoria
Hello, and thanks for the answer!
I did some more searching this morning, and I managed to find a
distribution of the cdrecord tools for Windows which comes with a Cygwin
dll, which I can live with. (The one that I had seen previously was source
code, and required the Cygwin development system to compile it.) As far as
Windows XP's CD burning library, I searched both the platform SDK that I
have on my system, and the *official* one on MSDN, and could find very
little mentioned after searching for "cd rom burning." The closest I found
were a few obscure functions for getting CD information, therefore I'm
assuming that these functions are more than likely undocumented.
Ahead Nero's SDK tools were documented fairly well, but the license for
using those tools were extremely restrictive for my tastes, even if I were
to purchase a license. I would not be able to distribute the dll's, which
means that anyone who wanted to use my application would also have to buy a
copy of Nero. I have found Nero to be a decent CD Burning utility, but I
would prefer not to saddle my users with having to buy one application just
to get mine to work.
Not to kick a dead horse, but ... as I plan this project out, I've begun to
be reminded of the advantages of "conditional includes," especially when
trying to write a cross-platform gui application. This would be a Very
Good Thing ...
if platform() = WIN32 then
include win32lib.ew
else
include gtk.e
end if
Again, thanks for your help!
Travis W. Beaty
Osage, Iowa.
At 03:54 AM 1/25/2004, you wrote:
>In windows XP it would be possible to wrap the built in CDburning libraries.
>I dont actualy know wich *.dll's they are. It would requre a little
>research.
>However this aproach leaves no scope for other platforms.
>
