bogstandard / win-eject

Win-Eject is a binding for DVD and CD drives. It currently only supports Windows .

Win-Eject

Win-Eject is a binding for DVD and CD drives. It currently only supports Windows and is dependent on VBScript. Inspired by DiscDrive for OSX & Linux.

Documentation

Drives: function([callback]);

Argument is of type Function. It is always called upon completion. The argument sent to this callback function is an Object listing available drives.

Example usage:

var winEject = require('win-eject');

// Get list of drives availiable
winEject.drives(function(drives){
    console.log(drives);
});

Eject: function([id/mount], [callback]);

First argument can be of type string. It specifies the mount / ID of the disk drive to eject. If no drive is specified or the string is blank '' then all drives will be opened.

Second argument is of type Function. It is always called upon completion. This callback function is optional.

Example usage:

// Eject all available disk drives.
// Note lack of callback (optional)
winEject.eject();

// Eject disk of [drive].
winEject.eject('E:', function() {
	console.log('Disc Drive E: ejected!');
});

Close: function([id/mount], [callback]);

First argument is of type string. It specifies the mount / ID of the disk drive to eject. If no drive is specified or the string is blank '' then all drives will be closed.

Second argument is of type Function. It is always called upon completion. This callback function is optional.

Warning: Close is a hacky solution & has smelly code. This is built on a workaround within VBScript to counter a flaw of VBScript. This function will not work on drives which must be manually close (eg. Laptop drives).

Example usage:

// Close all available disk drives.
// Note lack of callback (optional)
winEject.close();

// Close disk of [drive].
winEject.close('E:', function() {
	console.log('Disc Drive E: close!');
});

Compatibility

Currently, only Windows 7, 8 & 8.1 have been tested and confirmed to work. On going testing is required.