Learn to Program, 2nd Edition

Exercises from Chapter 11

Safer Picture Downloading

Well, since I was asking you to adapt it to your computer, I can’t really show you how to do it. I will show you the program I actually wrote, though.

It’s a bit more complex than the other examples here, partly because it’s a real, working tool.

#  For Katy, with love.
###  Download pictures from camera card.
require 'win32ole'
STDOUT.sync = true
Thread.abort_on_exception = true
Dir.chdir 'C:\Documents and Settings\Chris\Desktop\pictureinbox'
#  Always look here for pics.
pic_names = Dir['!undated/**/*.{jpg,avi}']
thm_names = Dir['!undated/**/*.{thm}'    ]
#  Scan for memory cards in the card reader.
WIN32OLE.new("Scripting.FileSystemObject").Drives.each() do |x|
  #driveType 1 is removable ...