Lightscribe?

[Alexis]

Hi, I have been recently working on CD burning in labview (using nero's command line in this case), but in an attempt to streamline things one step further, I was wondering if anyone has ever used a Lightscribe CD burner for putting the artwork on a CD?  I think this would be great for a low yield operation instead of using CD Labels or a specialized CD printer, but I am having issues finding something like a command line or activeX control for hooking into it.  

So has anyone done this, or even started to?

[MikaelH]

QUOTE(Alexis @ Feb 3 2008, 04:21 AM)

Hi, I have been recently working on CD burning in labview (using nero's command line in this case), but in an attempt to streamline things one step further, I was wondering if anyone has ever used a Lightscribe CD burner for putting the artwork on a CD? I think this would be great for a low yield operation instead of using CD Labels or a specialized CD printer, but I am having issues finding something like a command line or activeX control for hooking into it.

So has anyone done this, or even started to?

Hi Alexis

When I have trouble getting my hands of a easy way to hook into an application, I use AutoIT (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/downloads.php).

This is a script language that can be compiles into an Executable.

Then I run the exe-file from LabVIEW.

The AutoIT scripts are very flexible when it comes to automate GUI tasks.

I use it for automated tests of LabVIEW GUI applications.

Some features:

• You could emulate mouse clicks and keyboard strokes.
  

• Read write data from/to files
  

• And also it's free!!
  

A script could look like this:

[font="Times New Roman"][size=3]Run("notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")
Send("This is some text.")
WinClose("Untitled - Notepad")
WinWaitActive("Notepad", "Do you want to save")
Send("!n")[/size][/font]

I have also done my own LV-application that records the keyboard and mouse and generates an AutoIT script.

Cheers,

Mikael

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

I don't have a LightScribe drive, but I was curious so I did some searching and found the LightScribe web site.

On the support page, there seems to be an SDK that is available for download. Have you looked at this yet?