Opening CD tray

What functions would I use to open the CD tray?

I've received mixed research results on this, some long and some simple. I've found a few snippets (that I try to use an example) but they don't work :\

guestgulkan (2942)

what os?

Neo Nemesis (19)

Windows XP SP2 But I'd like to know how to do it with all current OS's if possible, but the priority is XP

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Dr3DsY (2)

Have you tried this one? It uses mciSendString()....

http://www.daniweb.com/code/showthread.php?t=216376

Seems alright at first glance...
I haven't tried it yet but the comments below the article looked promising!

guestgulkan (2942)

There is also the DeviceIOCTL routines.

Neo Nemesis (19)

I was thinking of mciSendString() as well, I found a similiar snippet to that one and it didnt work, I'll try this one and we'll see. As long as it is a working snippet I can learn from it.

I will also look into the DeviceIOCTL routines.

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Duthomhas (13206)

BTW, doing this will be different for every OS...

Neo Nemesis (19)

Okay well mciSendString() worked. This is what I have. I had to include libwinmm.a with Dev-C++ in order for it to work (As the snippet posted by Dr3DsY directed) This what I've got:

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <mmsystem.h>
 
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{

    mciSendString("open CDAudio", NULL, 0, NULL);
    cout << "CD Tray is opening please wait..." << endl;
    mciSendString("set CDAudio door open", NULL, 0, NULL);
    cout << "CD Tray is open please place in or remove CD and ";
    system("pause");
    mciSendString("set CDAudio door closed", NULL, 0, NULL);
    mciSendString("close CDAudio", NULL, 0, NULL);
    return 0;
}

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Neo Nemesis (19)

so this one I am guessing is compatible with windows XP, if anyone knows of newer OS commands for the CD tray please elaborate or a more "universal" way to do it.

Neo Nemesis (19)

Le bump! Nothing?

From all the people I've given the above snippet to it has worked fine. If no more suggestions I will mark this topic as solved.

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