I won't say this is the best approach, but it worked for me: For my
Windows-only application I wrote a little "launcher" program in C++, with an
autorun.inf file that points to the launcher program. The launcher launches
my custom player application, though it could easily launch QT Player. In
this message I won't get into the details, as everything I needed I got by
searching these archives, but if people are interested I'm follow up.
The launcher app runs through the following steps:
1) It detects quicktime (first presence, then version; I want QT6 or better)
using the techniques posted on this list (or the API list, I forget).
2) If QT5 isn't found, the launcher spawns (using _spawnl()) the standalone
installer, waiting for install to finish. Again, standalone installer
details have been posted to this or the API list.
3) It puts up a simple UI to let users pick the movies they want to view.
4) It spawns (using _spawnl()) the player with the movie selected as the
argument.
I'd be very interested to hear what others do.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: email@hidden
[mailto:email@hidden]On Behalf Of So. Shore
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:47 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: QT Player from CD
Hi,
I am also very interested in any feedback that the "Pro's" can give us on
this issue. I do know it was discussed a while back but I'm not sure that
a consensus was reached----as to what is the most user friendly way to
script a CD so that it will:
1) Begin play once installed
2) Check if user has QT and if not, launch the self installer.
3) Play the movie within the skin.
And does the fact that a skin was built with Flash or other affect this
procedure; And will this work smoothly for mac and windows users.
thanks,
Brian
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