
Check if QuickTime is installed

thomas_braun
// Returns 1 if quickTime is present and 0 if not // It achieves this by trying to save a image as BMP which is only possible with quicktime installed Function IsQuickTimeInstalled() variable err string errMsg // save current debugger state variable debuggerState, debugOnError, waveChecking DebuggerOptions debuggerState = V_enable debugOnError = V_debugOnError waveChecking = V_NVAR_SVAR_WAVE_Checking // turn debugger off DebuggerOptions enable=0 Make/FREE/N=(1,1) testImage NewPath/Q/O tempPath, SpecialDirPath("Temporary",0,0,0) err = GetRTError(0) ImageSave/P=tempPath/O testImage as "delete_me.bmp" errMsg = StringFromList(1,GetRTErrMessage()) err = GetRTError(1) KillPath/Z tempPath // restore debugger state DebuggerOptions enable=debuggerState, debugOnError=debugOnError, NVAR_SVAR_WAVE_Checking=waveChecking if( err == 0 ) // quicktime found return 1 else // err == 221 denotes that quicktime was not found, or other unknown error return 0 endif End

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I suppose it depends on whether V_flag=0 is returned only for unsupported file types (and not for other reasons). Otherwise you would have to depend on a specific RTE error code being detected. It is too inconvenient for me to uninstall QuickTime to test this, so I rely on others for comments.
May 30, 2012 at 10:28 am - Permalink
ImageFileInfo
"throws" the same RTE if quicktime is not installed. So the whole GetRTError() and debugger state magic is the same. Additionally one has to have a known image file on disc for ImageFileInfo to work. And getting this to work both on Win and MacOSX would be equally ugly I guess.June 4, 2012 at 01:52 pm - Permalink