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Re: Using QuickTime / Windows

Greg,

Thanks for that info!

First time I encountered that someone implemented stuff like this in the "correct and easy" way

Thumb up!

Thanks
Rolf Nilsson / Roni Music


>
> Message: 5
> From: Greg Chapman <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Using QuickTime / Windows
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:00:14 -0800
> To: email@hidden
>
> You have it exactly right, and we designed it that way for exactly that
> reason: so applications could launch and check at runtime if QuickTime
> is installed, without getting "missing DLL" error messages, or having
> the app quit.
>
> Greg Chapman
> QuickTime Engineering
> email@hidden
>
> On Mar 29, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Roni Music wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When using QuickTime in my Windows application I need to make sure it
> > works even if a Windows user does not have QuickTime installed. I only
> > use the audio portion of QuickTime.
> >
> > So this is what I've done and would like somebody to confirm that this
> > will not break my app:
> >
> > I'm linking statically to the qtmlClient.lib in the SDK.
> >
> > Then before using any QuickTime routines (or at program start) I call
> > the
> >
> > InitializeQTML() function. If this returns noErr, QuickTime is
> > installed and I can start using my QuickTime stuff.
> >
> > If InitializeQTML() returns an error, QuickTime is not installed and I
> > will have to use my other ways of playing audio.
> >
> > The important thing is that my app will not display error messages
> > such as "Missing dll this or that" and then quit.
> >
> > Thanks for any insights
> >
> > Rolf Nilsson
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