Hi Martin,

We have a requirement which matches with yours. We have an Applicaiton as
custom shell. when the machine is started, if a USB mem stick is connected it
has to launch a FTP application. Here are the possible steps which can be
used in the logic. I am not sure whether i will be able to solve your problem
with this but you can look into it.

1) In OnitinDialog or the main function of the Application, call a routine
which checks for the USB mem stick on the system. You can wait for 10 secs
for the USB mem stick to be recognized (Normally it is recognized immediately
as soon as the boot process is complete). Use a wait with a message loop so
that you are not blocking any messages.

2) If Mem stick is present, then you can read the files from the thumb drive.

If you need the logic for USB detection, do let me know.

Thanks,
Ashok

"Martin Dowie" wrote:

> Hmmm, that's very interesting...but I'm not sure it's a solution we can use
> as there isn't a notion of a 'proper' drive.
>
> I think we may need to take a hit, make a mod to the application and 'poll'
> for the drive, say, every 10 seconds until files are found (or not). Once
> they are found we can stop polling but we have no way of knowing if there
> isn't a drive there or just one with no files (the copy's are done using the
> "system" function call with a DOS-like COPY command in it - not via some
> file/directory library). Keeps it simple but perhaps too simple! ;-)
>
> Thanks for all the replies.
>
> Martin
>
>
> "Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras" wrote:
>
> > Martin Dowie <MartinDowie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Can it really take /that/ long for the OS to spot / mount the disk?
> >
> > Yes, it can. To improve this, we plug the USB stick into every USB
> > port during creation of the image, so the system has the proper driver
> > at hand, and the drive shows up faster.
> >
> >
> > -ras
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ralph A. Schmid
> >
> > http://www.dk5ras.de/ http://www.db0fue.de/
> > http://www.bclog.de/
> >