Quicktime version detection

[Mark MacKenzie]

I am writing cross platform multimedia projects which make use of QuickTime. I need to be able to detect what version of QT is installed on the target PC system. Ideally version detection as fine as determining whether QT 4.1 or 4.1.2 is installed would be required. There are a whole host of fellow developers out here who need to be able to do this. Regards Mark MacKenzie, Historical Treasures & Ancient Arts

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[Mark]

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion; this has been placed in our suggestion database.

mark.

[mczajka]

I am a new user to Setup Factory and AutoPlay - my former installer software company (20/20 Software) was purchased by Symantec and they dumped PCInstall - so here I am.

Many of the features of PCInstall could be incorporated into Setup Factory, including the ability to check the file version of an executable, for example. We need to do this right now to check for Acrobat Reader version 4.05 or higher.

[Mark]

Hi,
Actually with some software you are able to check the version number by querying the registry. The only problem with doing things this way is if the registry is corrupted, or if the user deletes the program without uninstalling, then the key would remain but the application would not. It is usually a better idea to simply give the user the option to install or not. True, some users might install an earlier version of an application, but that is better then some users not being able to install software that they need because of a registry error.

mark.

[mczajka]

I guess adding an Acrobat Reader checkbox in AutoPlay Menu Studio - like the current Quicktime checkbox in AutoPlay, would be a good addition. For example: %PDFVersion% could be used, but you could do this for other products as wellL Powerpoint, etc.