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sachintholia
10-10-2009, 08:20 AM
I am using setup factory for the first time, so please help me with proper steps

my problem :

I want to create a installer. The files that i will be sending includes some .mov and .pdf files

every computer doesnot have softwares to play such files, I want to know that if the computer in which this installer will be executed check if there is a utility to open such file and if not such utility is available then it ask for insalling adoble acrobat reader 7 and quick time player 4 for which i will put the installers in the cd

i have put files , acrobat installer and quick time installer in reference folder which will get copied in program files , but how to check that there exist some program to open the files already exixt or not

i am not a technical guy so explained in layman language , if u need any other information please let me know but help me how to do this

thanks in advance

Ulrich
10-10-2009, 10:31 AM
Hello,

check the documentation for File.GetDefaultViewer(). You can use this action to retrieve the program associated with any extension, and if it returns a blank string, that would mean that no program is currently installed to handle that extension.

Ulrich