Retrieving More Hardware Information With Internet Explorer and JavaScript - Another way to retrieve printer driver information available in a computer using JavaScript
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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>");
}
functiondispHeading()
{
document.write("<thead>");
document.write("<td>Name </td>");
document.write("<td>DriverPath </td>");
document.write("<td>DataFile </td>");
document.write("<td>ConfigFile </td>");
document.write("<td>OEMUrl </td>");
document.write("<td>DependentFiles </td>");
document.write("</thead>");
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<INPUT id="Button1" type="button" value="Button" name="Button1"
language="javascript" onclick="return Button1_onclick()">
</body>
</html>
The explanation is similar to the previous one except that I used a different class, "PrinterDriver."
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