Looking for a cdr / cdrw api

[hennep]

I want to create an application to write to cdr/cdrw.
After using "Easy CD Creator 3" for a long time I am not pleased with the speed and stability of versions 4 and 5. I had to upgrade to a higher version, my new HP USB writer is not recognized by version 3.
I came up with the idea of writing my own user interface and do the actual writing with a dos executable or windows API functions.
Has anybody ever seen drivers on the net to create cd's, i have already downloaded the dos utils from Jeff Arnold but I prefer to use API's.

 

[Cagliostro]

use COM. John Fill

ivfmd@mail.md

 

[hennep]

What program do I communicate with ?

 

[Cagliostro]

Look up it in WindowsRegistry in key HKEY_CLASS_ROOT. Find something as CDCreator... Also you can try to see it in OLE/COM ObjectView -> AllObjects. If you see many such IDs, choose which one has IDispatch. John Fill

ivfmd@mail.md

 

[hennep]

I don't want to use the adaptec/roxio driver. like I wrote before, it is slow and buggy.
I am looking for a freeware/gpl/... driver for the windows platform. I hope its available.

 

[edUlises]

Where can i find at least the roxio driver that you mentioned ? I've installed the easy cd creator and it won´t show up anywhere, nor in the registry nor in mts/com+.
Pleeease give some hint!

 

[hennep]

The dll's are in the windows\system or winnt\system32 directory when Creator is installed. I could not find a description how to use them but I figured out that you can create a reference in VB to "Engine 1.0 type library" (engine.dll).
It will take some time before you know how to create your own IDE on top of this driver.

I tried something like this:
dim O as new CDEngineDevice
O.EjectMedia

 

[hennep]

sorry, not the system folder.
The path to the dll is:

C:\Program Files\Adaptec\Shared\ECDC Engine\engine.dll