Check QuickTime info

 

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From Technote #13339 at Macroemdia.com

-- Example Director 6.5 QT Detection handling: -- This function determines if QuickTime is installed, -- and if so, returns a list containing the version(s). -- It also reports whether or not the QT3 Asset Xtra is -- present in the Xtras folder. -- -- This function handler should be used in a projector playing -- a movie that does not itself contain QT3 Asset Xtra cast -- members (e.g.: use it in a "stub" movie), -- because on Mac this will cause a -- projector error if QT3 is not installed. -- -- This handling would be typically located in a -- movie script so it can be called by handlers throughout -- the movie. It returns a list as a result. -- -- After determining the QT installation status info, -- you might navigate to a movie that contains the -- appropriate assets (either QT2 or QT3 media, or no QT -- media), or alert the user, or launch a QT installer, etc. -- -- This handling is based in part on ideas supplied by -- Bruce Epstein of Zeus Productions -- and Mark Castle of Castle Productions. -- -- The list "qtConfigList" returned by this function -- "GetQTVersionAndXtraStatus()" -- will contain the following possible combinations: -- The 1st item in the list is the QT2 status; -- the 2nd item in the list is the QT3 and QT3 Asset Xtra status. -- Mac & Win: -- [0, 3] = No QT2 installed; QT3 installed (QT3 Xtra loaded). -- [2, -1] = QT2 only installed; (QT3 Xtra not loaded). -- [0, -1] = No QT2 installed; (QT3 Xtra not