QT on Windows

[Phil Jimmieson]

On 16 Jul 2007, at 08:06, David Glasgow wrote:

> I was just putting the finishing touches to a product for a client  
> when, on impulse, I 'sexed it up' with a little .mov in the  
> standalone splashscreen. I use playstopped to trigger showing the  
> splashscreen proper.  This works fine on Mac, reliably running  
> wherever I place the enclosing folder.  The same can't be said for  
> Windows. With QT installed, some boxes run it fine, and some  
> don't.  It sometimes behaves as if the filename of the movie  isn't  
> valid even though it is always contained within the same folder,  
> and double clicking the movie launches QT as expected.  I don't  
> have time to work out why this is the case,  so I decided to just  
> skip the movie if it isn't going to run, and show the buttons and  
> information fields which form the business end of the  
> splashscreen.  This has proved more difficult than I expected.  I  
> use Studio, so I can't debug in detail on Windows.

Hi David,
do you use a relative filename for the movie? If so, try getting the  
filename and turning it into an absolute one. I had a problem where  
quicktime movies with relative filenames would work on OSX and Mac  
OS9, but not on Windows - I managed to figure out the path was  
invalid (although it was the same relative path on both boxes).

Check out bug 1161 in the quality control centre:

http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=1161

>
> (This all goes to confirm rule 437 of software development:  "Never  
> sex up a splashscreen on impulse, especially if you have just  
> promised to deliver the product within the week")

Sometimes the simplest things require the most code!

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