Retrieving More Hardware Information With Internet Explorer and JavaScript
This is the fourth and last article in this series, which focuses on retrieving hardware information using JavaScript and presenting it on a web page. You can directly copy and paste the code samples present in this article into a file with the extension “.htm” and open them in Internet Explorer 5.5+.
Retrieving More Hardware Information With Internet Explorer and JavaScript - Another way to retrieve printer driver information available in a computer using JavaScript (Page 6 of 7 )
This is another way of retrieving printer driver information. There exists a bit of confusion about getting device drivers according to MSDN docs. I suggest you use the following technique instead. The entire code for the sample is as follows:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1"> <meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ intellisense/ie5"> <script id="clientEventHandlersJS" language="javascript"> <!--
functionButton1_onclick() { var locator = new ActiveXObject ("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator"); var service = locator.ConnectServer("."); var properties = service.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_ PrinterDriver"); var e = new Enumerator (properties); document.write("<table border=1>"); dispHeading(); for (;!e.atEnd();e.moveNext ()) { var p = e.item (); document.write("<tr>"); document.write("<td>" + p.Name + "</td>"); document.write("<td>" + p.DriverPath + "</td>"); document.write("<td>" + p.DataFile + "</td>"); document.write("<td>" + p.ConfigFile + "</td>"); document.write("<td>" + p.OEMUrl + "</td>"); document.write("<td>" + p.DependentFiles + "</td>"); document.write("</tr>"); } document.write("</table>"); }