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Icons for removable drives
Posted: 2007-02-01, 22:32 UTC
by mika
Separate icons for removable drives is a great idea, but is in order to avoid "Drive not found!" error message, it possible to make a different icon for the drive that has media inserted and recognized, for example, green for recognized and grey for empty flash drive?
Old request…
Posted: 2007-02-01, 22:59 UTC
by Clo
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mika
Hello !
• IIRC, this has been discussed¦requested a long while ago in the French forum…
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Ch. Ghisler said that he has no means to get the info from Win,
in order to know when the removable media is inserted or not…
- But yet, Win Explorer is able to distinguish and display the two states (still IIRC).
• Anyway, good to bump that topic, maybe some evolution is "on" ?
Kind regards,
Claude
Clo
Posted: 2009-06-25, 16:17 UTC
by mika
Anybody? At least could you explain in English why Windows Explorer is able to distinguish the state and Total Commander cannot?
Posted: 2009-06-25, 18:12 UTC
by mika
When I place the cursor over the drive in Total Commander, it shows me "Removable Disk" when the media is not inserted and "Kingston" or other volume name when media is inserted. So Total Commander DOES know the media is inserted. It is just a matter of automatically replacing the icons when the media is recognized. Simple but very convenient because for some people like me it is always a pain to memorize which drive is my SD card reader
Posted: 2009-06-25, 18:36 UTC
by j
A very quick Google search revealed:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/shchangenotifyregister.aspx
So using [face=courier]SHChangeNotifyRegister[/face] with [face=courier]SHCNE_MEDIAINSERTED|SHCNE_MEDIAREMOVED[/face] does apparently give the notification when a media is inserted or removed.
Posted: 2009-06-25, 18:42 UTC
by Samuel
support++
Posted: 2009-06-25, 20:48 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
So Total Commander DOES know the media is inserted.
No, ufortunately it doesn't.
The text is requested from the system, but it can be in all kinds of languages, so I don't know how to find out the actual state of the reader.
SHChangeNotifyRegister
I'm already using that for other things, but it doesn't tell the current state, just state CHANGES...
Posted: 2009-06-26, 20:34 UTC
by sqa_wizard
mika wrote:for some people like me it is always a pain to memorize which drive is my SD card reader
Have a look at
More meaningful drive icons