Hi Buzz Thanks very much for the help. It's all working now. You really helped a lot with the suggestions. Thanks again.
Just one point - i used QuickTimePresent() which is indeed boolean. QuickTimeVersion, hower, gives the version number and is not Boolean. e.g. 'put the QuickTimeVersion' yields a number and not a true, false, 1 or 0. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buzz Kettles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 4:44 AM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Quicktime issues using MPEG > It's a boolean - it returns true or false (it's not a function) > -Buzz > > At 11:51 PM +0200 8/16/02, you wrote: > > >From what I can tell, quickTimeversion gives me the version, but not whether > >or not there is actually an installation. I know that anything lower than QT > >3.0 will display as 2.1. whatever, but not that no QT installation will > >necessarily return as that. The help file says that this function has > >replaced QuickTimePresent(), but I'm not sure what to look for when the > >quickTimeVersion is returned if a user does not have QT installed. > > > >Andy > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Thomas Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 12:24 AM > >Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Quicktime issues using MPEG > > > > > >> Andy, > >> > >> > Thanks for the help Thomas. It's nice to see the Macromedia > >> > crowd hanging around on the list. > >> > >> Glad to help, but that Buzz guy knows a thing or two himself... ;) > >> > >> > >> > While I have your attention, could I ask if there's a quick > >> > way to detect QT on a PC projector without using an Xtra > >> > like Buddy API? > >> > >> Have you tried quickTimeVersion() in Lingo? If so is it not working well > >enough for you? > >> > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Tom > >> [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is > >for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the > >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with > >programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
