This is the documentation for the Realbasic Plugins from Monkeybreadsoftware.de. You find these plugins and the newest version of this document at http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic inside the plugins section.
This help was last updated on Freitag, 6. September 2002 and covers 2136 items: 126 classes, 2 controls and 583 global functions.
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class ATADriveInfo | |||||||||||
| class, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: does nothing. | Windows: does nothing. | |||||||||
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Function:
Gives access to hardware details of a drive. | |||||||||||
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Notes:
There are some more things about a drive to know but nothing interesting in my option. Also a function to read a sector of the disk would be possible. Ask if you need something special. Thanks to Pedro Camargo for the idea and testing. | |||||||||||
CapacityinSectors as Integer | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways 0. | Windows: returns allways 0. | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the number of the sectors on the drive. | |||||||||||
Configuration as Integer | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways 0. | Windows: returns allways 0. | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the Configuration bits of the drive. | |||||||||||
Cylinders as Integer | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways 0. | Windows: returns allways 0. | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the number of cylinders of the drive. | |||||||||||
DeviceType as String | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways "". | Windows: returns allways "". | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the Type string of the drive. | |||||||||||
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Notes:
Possible values:
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DriveSerial as String | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways "". | Windows: returns allways "". | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns a string with the drives serial number. | |||||||||||
FirmwareVersion as String | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways "". | Windows: returns allways "". | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the Firmware Version of the drive. | |||||||||||
Heads as Integer | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways 0. | Windows: returns allways 0. | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the number of Heads of the drive. | |||||||||||
Modelname as String | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways "". | Windows: returns allways "". | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the Model name of the drive. | |||||||||||
SectorsinTrack as Integer | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways 0. | Windows: returns allways 0. | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the number of Sectors in a Track of the drive. | |||||||||||
SectorSize as Integer | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways 0. | Windows: returns allways 0. | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the size of a sector of the drive. | |||||||||||
SocketType as String | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways "". | Windows: returns allways "". | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the Type string of the socket where the drive connects. | |||||||||||
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Notes:
Possible values:
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TrackSize as Integer | |||||||||||
| property, ATA | Mo, 15. Jul 2002 | ||||||||||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: returns allways 0. | Windows: returns allways 0. | |||||||||
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Function:
Returns the size of a Track of the drive. | |||||||||||
Written 2002 by Christian Schmitz. Feel free to ask or report mistakes to realbasic@macsw.de.
Thanks.