New Quicktime 7.1 installation

Question

Hi there
I used to have a lovely bit of code with budapi in my
programs to detect if QT was not installed, and if not, use the
Quicktime 6.5 standalone installer and an ini file (to install it
without plaguing the user to keep clicking next etc etc), and for
AW to patiently wait until QT was done, and then continue (i.e
restart the program so that it can use QT for videos).
Now my video guy has made videos that require 7.1, and I
can't get it to work in the same way. I can't seem to use my ini
file (googling told me so) - so the only options I seemed left with
were either making the user install themselves and then restart the
program (annoying), or have the program install silently (run with
/S). Either way though, AW now doesn't want to wait using the same
code (see below), and just carries on while QT7.1 is installing.
Has anyone come across a method for doing this yet?
Many thanks
Helen
------------ CODE ------------
baRunProgram( FileLocation ^"quicktimefullinstaller.exe" ,
"normal", TRUE )
if baactivewindow() <> baWinHandle() then
baActivateWindow( baWinHandle() )
end if
noqtime:=FALSE
JumpOut(FileLocation^"Myprogram.exe")

Answer 1

Helen,
Did you download this file from the Apple Website? When you
launch it, do
you see a small window with a Quicktime logo and a green
progress bar that
appears for a few seconds? If so, you are using a compressed
version of the
installer and this would probably cause your problem. Your
computer views
the decompression of the QuickTime installer as a seperate
program from the
actual Quicktime installer, therefore your program will not
wait until the
install finished...it waits until the decompression is
finished. I ran into
this problem when I tried to lauch the QuickTime and Adobe
Reader installers
from our install programs that I created with Installshield,
but I have
never tried this with Authorware.
To get the uncompressed files, you either have to lauch the
installer and
search your computer for the files that were extracted, or
use a compression
program ( I recommend using WinRAR) to extract the files
yourself.
Chris
"helen_m" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi there
>
> I used to have a lovely bit of code with budapi in my
programs to detect
> if QT
> was not installed, and if not, use the Quicktime 6.5
standalone installer
> and
> an ini file (to install it without plaguing the user to
keep clicking next
> etc
> etc), and for AW to patiently wait until QT was done,
and then continue
> (i.e
> restart the program so that it can use QT for videos).
>
> Now my video guy has made videos that require 7.1, and I
can't get it to
> work
> in the same way. I can't seem to use my ini file
(googling told me so) -
> so the
> only options I seemed left with were either making the
user install
> themselves
> and then restart the program (annoying), or have the
program install
> silently
> (run with /S). Either way though, AW now doesn't want to
wait using the
> same
> code (see below), and just carries on while QT7.1 is
installing.
>
> Has anyone come across a method for doing this yet?
> Many thanks
> Helen
>
> ------------ CODE ------------
> baRunProgram( FileLocation ^"quicktimefullinstaller.exe"
, "normal",
> TRUE )
> if baactivewindow() <> baWinHandle() then
> baActivateWindow( baWinHandle() )
> end if
> noqtime:=FALSE
> JumpOut(FileLocation^"Myprogram.exe")
>