opening a pdf file from a paradox button

[Guest_imported]

Hi

Trying to open a pdf file from a paradox 8 button.

Does acrobat 4 or 5 support DDE? or am I going in the wrong direction?

thanks

 

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Nigel1234,

Try something along these lines:

execute( "start c:\\mypath\\myfile.pdf" )

Hope this helps...

-- Lance

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks

but all i get is an error message

"error occured while trying to execute the specified program"

do you have any further idears?

 

[almir]

Try this:

execute("C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 4.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe", "c:\\mypath\\myfile.pdf" )

first part executes the programe, and another one loads the file specified.

This should work

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks but further error messages

when i run

execute("C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 5.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat","C:\\AcroJS.pdf&quot

I get the message

invalid charitor "C":\AcroJS.pdf

if i just execute the application this will run

any further ideas?

 

[Langley]

Try putting it all in one statement.

execute("C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 5.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe C:\\AcroJS.pdf&quot

Mac

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Nigel1234,

Also, don't forget that you need to use two backslashes when referring to directory separators, e.g.

"c:\\program files\\adbode\\Acrobat 5.0\\"

ObjectPAL uses backslashe to indicate control characters, e.g. "\n" means "newline", "\t" means tab, and so on.

Thus, to pass a "real" backslash, you need to use two of them.

Hope this helps...

-- Lance