Thread: Hardware "initialization"

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    Hardware "initialization"

    Is there a way to detect maximum and available hard drive space?

    Also, is there a GetAllInputDevicesAndPrintEachToClientArea function? :-)

    Seriously, I was looking at GetSystemMetrics and the mouse detection looked a little weak and was wondering if there were a more reliable way to detect it than SM_MOUSEPRESENT?

    Microsoft says:

    Nonzero if a mouse is installed; otherwise, 0 (zero). This value is rarely zero, because of support for virtual mice and because some systems detect the presence of the port instead of the presence of a mouse.

    mw
    Blucast Corporation

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    Code snippet below to detect maximum and available hard drive space.

    Bob

    Code:
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
        unsigned __int64 i64TotalBytes, i64AvailableBytes;    
    
        BOOL  bReturn;
        char  *pDrive  = "C:\\";
        DWORD dwSectorsPerCluster,
            dwBytesPerSector,
            dwFreeClusters,
            dwTotalClusters;
    
        bReturn = GetDiskFreeSpace (pDrive, 
            &dwSectorsPerCluster,
            &dwBytesPerSector, 
            &dwFreeClusters,
            &dwTotalClusters);
        if (bReturn)
        {
            /* cast it to 64 bits for calculations */ 
            i64TotalBytes = (__int64)dwTotalClusters * dwSectorsPerCluster * dwBytesPerSector;
            i64AvailableBytes = (__int64)dwFreeClusters * dwSectorsPerCluster * dwBytesPerSector;
            printf ("Available = %I64u MB\n", i64AvailableBytes / (1024*1024));
            printf ("Total  = %I64u MB\n",i64TotalBytes / (1024*1024));
        }
        else 
            printf("GetDiskFreeSpace failed\n");
        return 0;
    }

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    Thanks! It works great!

    mw
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