I am making a CD for the non-profit organization I work for. The CD contains
all of the publications that we publish and will contain a GUI to access
them. When the user clicks on a publication button in the GUI, the pdf of the
publication needs to open in an Adobe Reader/Acrobat window. I can't figure
out how to make this work in VB.
I was told to try this: You'd want to use ShellExecute, as shown on http://vb.mvps.org/samples/hyperjmp...
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dl l" Alias "ShellExecuteA " (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
Public Function OpenDoc(ByVal DocFile As String) As Long ' Actually uses the default verb if available, and "open" otherwise OpenDoc = ShellExecute(0& , vbNullString, DocFile, vbNullString, vbNullString , vbNormalFocus) End Function
Pass the path/name of the desired PDF to this OpenDoc function.
I've tried that, but now my problem is I've been messing around with
ShellExecute for awhile and I'm having issues.
I don't think I'm passing the path/name of the PDF to the OpenDoc function
correctly. If I have a button named 'PDF', that calls the OpenDoc function
and passes the path/filename to it when it's clicked, what would the function
call look like?
Thanks for any help. 4 10520
"Jedi10180" <Je*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> schrieb: I am making a CD for the non-profit organization I work for. The CD contains all of the publications that we publish and will contain a GUI to access them. When the user clicks on a publication button in the GUI, the pdf of the publication needs to open in an Adobe Reader/Acrobat window. I can't figure out how to make this work in VB.
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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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In VB2003, embedding the Adobe Acrobat 7 Browser Document control in the
project works well for me, but I have not been able to find out the
licensing implications, of using this in a VB.NET project. The user needs to
install Acrobat Reader 7 on their machine. Can anyone confirm if this is an
acceptable use or not for the control??
Code:-
With AxPDF1
..Visible = True
..setShowToolba r((True))
..LoadFile("C:\ Statement.pdf")
Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default
..Show()
..Select()
..SuspendLayout ()
End With
Best wishes
Paul Bromley
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news:01******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... I am making a CD for the non-profit organization I work for. The CD contains all of the publications that we publish and will contain a GUI to access them. When the user clicks on a publication button in the GUI, the pdf of the publication needs to open in an Adobe Reader/Acrobat window. I can't figure out how to make this work in VB.
I was told to try this:
You'd want to use ShellExecute, as shown on http://vb.mvps.org/samples/hyperjmp...
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dl l" Alias "ShellExecute A" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
Public Function OpenDoc(ByVal DocFile As String) As Long ' Actually uses the default verb if available, and "open" otherwise OpenDoc = ShellExecute(0& , vbNullString, DocFile, vbNullString, vbNullStrin g, vbNormalFocus) End Function
Pass the path/name of the desired PDF to this OpenDoc function.
I've tried that, but now my problem is I've been messing around with ShellExecute for awhile and I'm having issues. I don't think I'm passing the path/name of the PDF to the OpenDoc function correctly. If I have a button named 'PDF', that calls the OpenDoc function and passes the path/filename to it when it's clicked, what would the function call look like?
Thanks for any help.
Paul,
The Acrobat Reader is a free tool, and as such can be freely
distributed.
Licensing implication would occur only if the software used
technologies from the Acrobat Generator (I forgot the proper name),
which I think it's not the case.
All in all, it's a good thing to ship the Acrobat Reader with the
application and install it on the user machine, warning the user of
such behavior (Can some one spell SONY? ;-)
It would be a good thing too to check if the user box has already the
Acrobat Reader installed (at least the bare minimum to read the docs)
before installing.
Regards,
PJ http://pjondevelopment.50webs.com/
Thanks PJ
The reason I ask is that other PDF viewer controls seem to be so expensive.
Installing Reader 7 seems a small price to pay to use this control in your
applications.
Best wishes
Paul
"PJ on Development" <pj************ *@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g49g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Paul,
The Acrobat Reader is a free tool, and as such can be freely distributed.
Licensing implication would occur only if the software used technologies from the Acrobat Generator (I forgot the proper name), which I think it's not the case.
All in all, it's a good thing to ship the Acrobat Reader with the application and install it on the user machine, warning the user of such behavior (Can some one spell SONY? ;-)
It would be a good thing too to check if the user box has already the Acrobat Reader installed (at least the bare minimum to read the docs) before installing.
Regards,
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