On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 07:56 AM, Streaming Vistas wrote:
I'm running into the same situation with my www.streamingvistas.com
business. What I've done in the interrum is tried to make the
instruction
page (before people get to the content page) very explicitly explain
that QT
is needed and what they need to do to do it.
This has helped a great deal, but there is still some hand-holding.
I'm applying to get the quicktime installer stand-alone with
pre-defined
settings so that I can just have someone click on it once and have it
install without any confusing questions.
Joel,
This will not get rid of the "upgrade to Pro" nag screen that appears
every so often when running QT content, but here are some QT installer
for Windows tweaks and suggestions.
If you are including the QuickTime installer on a CD (I don't know if
there is a licensing agreement for web deilvery of the full installer!)
you can pre-define your own settings for the QTInstaller.exe (for
Windows, of course) by creating a little text file with settings for
the installer program which determines what options to install and when
to prompt the user. I have the *install process* down to three clicks
this way, but unless you also provide a license for QTpro, your users
will still get that occasional QT nag-screen (to upgrade to Pro).
-Mark
As far as that little text file I mentioned, here is a quote from a
post I made on the QTVR list with general instructions for delivering
the latest QT via CD to Windows users:
This helpful text file (or "ini") should be named (without quotes)
"QuickTimeInstaller.ini" and should be in the same folder as the
"QuickTimeInstaller.exe" application (there will also be a data bundle
called "QuickTimeInstallCache.qdat" in that folder, too.) This text
file contains directions for the QT installer and follows a certain
syntax.
Here is a verbatim example (as it appears in the "ini" file) of a
2-click (instead of 17) installer "ini":
That's it. Nothing else in the text file, and the name of this file has
to be correct ("QuickTimeInstaller.ini"). None of this violates your QT
distribution agreement, so don't worry about forcing the installer to
skip steps or ignore dialogs.
There are also custom Windows and Mac applications out there that look
for QuickTime, or determine the proper version, and then automate this
QT installation process from CD-ROM. TotallyHip Software includes one
with their LiveStagePro authoring application which uses a very similar
"ini" to streamline things.
-Mark (Again, I hope this helps you in your multi-platform distribution)
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