launch QT installer

[Henk van der Velden]

Danke Klaus, thanks Ken,

>
> Dag Henk,
>
>
>> Good day all,
>>
>> My application launches the QuickTime 7.1 Installer on Windows XP.  
>> The installer starts and then I get an error message:
>> http://www.iglow-media.nl/xchange/foutmeldingQTinstaller.gif
>> This is the QT standalone installer, saved locally and called with  
>> either launch "QuickTimeInstaller.exe" or get shell("start  
>> QuickTimeInstaller.exe").
>>
>> The same method works OK with the QuickTime 6.5 standalone installer.
>>
>> Anyone any ideas about what's happening?
>> What can be done to fix this?
>>
>
> I'm not sure if this helps, but did you try with the complete  
> (absolute) pathname
> to the installer?
>
> And you could also try this syntax:
>
> ...
> open process "QuickTimeinstaller.exe" for neither
> ...
>
> Also with the complete pathname.
> Another thought: Provide the "shortfilepath()" to "shell..."
>
> At least worth a try I think :-)
>

You were right about the absolute path.
I have tested both the launch and open process method, and both  
launch the QT 7.1 standalone installer properly.

Strange thing is the QT 6.5 standalone installer doesn't need an  
absolute path. I don't understand what difference there is for an  
application like the QT installer to be launched through a relative  
or an absolute file path. But at least my problem is solved.

Henk.