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Tekl

Post subject: Eject a CD-Rom like on Mac OS X

Posted: October 30th, 2004, 11:15 am

Joined: September 24th, 2004, 3:00 pm
Posts: 814
Location: Germany

Hello,

I've made a small script, which ejects a drive an shows a transparent symbol like in OS X. Download the Image and place it in the same folder of the script: http://www.rumborak.de/bilddaten/forum/Eject.bmp

Code:

ScrollLock::
   transparent = 150 ; starting transparency
   
   ; calculate position
   distY = %A_ScreenHeight%
   posY = %A_ScreenHeight%
   distY /= 4
   posY -= %distY%
   
   ; create OSD 
   Gui, Add, pic,x0 y0, %A_ScriptDir%\eject.bmp
   DetectHiddenWindows on
   WinWait, %A_ScriptName%  ; Set the "last found" window to GUI window.
   WinSet, TransColor,0000FF %transparent%
   WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, On
   Gui, -Caption
   Gui, Show, w150 h150 y%posY%
   
   Sleep, 100 ; a short sleep, so the image will always be shown
   
   Drive, Eject,F:, ; Eject the drive 
   if A_TimeSinceThisHotkey < 1000 ; Adjust this time if needed.
   {
      Drive, Eject,F:, 1 ; Close the drive if ejecting fails
   }
   
   ; fade down the OSD
   Loop, %transparent%
   {
      transparent -= 1
      WinSet, TransColor,0000FF %transparent%
   }
   Gui, Destroy
return

Regards, Tekl

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BoBo

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Posted: October 30th, 2004, 11:42 am

Cool !
Thx, for sharing it

[@ Tekl]

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Gre

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Posted: November 2nd, 2004, 4:26 pm

Joined: October 12th, 2004, 11:34 pm
Posts: 74
Location: São Paulo ,Brazil

Nice, an eye-candy.
Thanks

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Guest

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Posted: January 31st, 2005, 11:04 pm

Are you by any chance Wolfgang from C't magazine?

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jonny

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Posted: February 1st, 2005, 12:26 am

Joined: November 13th, 2004, 4:08 am
Posts: 2951
Location: Minnesota

I sure hope you mean Tekl, not BoBo.... :lol:

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RobOtter

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Posted: February 1st, 2005, 9:15 am

Joined: January 30th, 2005, 11:18 pm
Posts: 133
Location: Darmstadt, Germany

Anonymous wrote:

Are you by any chance Wolfgang from C't magazine?

He is, indeed. I asked myself the same question and did a bit of research, it was not too hard to find out.
Thanks to Tekl and his article in the german computer magazine c't, I now spend a bit more time on AHK after seeing what is possible with it...

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Bucky3006

Post subject: Eject CDRom

Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 4:28 pm

I am very new to this and I don't know how to activate this script. Do I set my own command to activate or what?
Thanks,
Bucky

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BoBo¨

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Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 5:05 pm

Execute the script. Nothing happens.
Press the ScrollLock key at your keyboard, because the script is assigned to a "Hotkey". One reason why AutoHotkey is named AutoHotkey.

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widow

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Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 7:57 pm

Code:

Drive, Eject,F:, ; Eject the drive

Also you might want to change "F" to the drive you want to eject.

There is a API to check for what kind of drive is there, but the problem comes when it is a virtual CD drive. Some virtual drivers dont like to be ejected i think.

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