[Qt-interest] Launching MSI's using QProcess on windows

[Scott Aron Bloom]

I forgot about the msiexec exec.. Ill try that...

The problem, I need to be able to send args, so openUrl is failing...

Scott

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[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of David Ching
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Launching MSI's using QProcess on windows

"Scott Aron Bloom" <Scott.Bloom at sabgroup.com> wrote in message 
news:7DB34253D57D2B47AEB656218FE6AAEF171D8B at hawkxp.onshorecs.local...
> QT 4.5, windows XP, Vista and 7
>
> Does anyone have any methodology for launching a MSI file from
QProcess?

I'm not sure what is the Qt way of launching the default file handler
for a 
given extension like .msi.  Would
QDesktopServices::openUrl("file:///...") 
do it?  Regardless, you can use QProcess::execute("msiexec.exe") and
specify 
the parameter of your .msi file.

-- David 

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