Opening and Displaying PDF Files from Delphi Application

[clakerley]

Hello Everyone,

I want to have my application open and display a PDF file when a user makes a menu selection. I know this should be simple, but I cannot find the answer in the Help files.

I don't want any dialog boxes to open for the user to select a file name or to select a program to use to open the file; I simply want my program to open and display the PDF file using the default program associated with PDF files on the system. Isn't there a Windows API procedure that does this already?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

clakerley

 

[lespaul]

var
RetVal: THandle;

RetVal := ShellExecute(Handle, 'open',
        PChar('C:\Filename.pdf'), nil, nil,
        SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Leslie

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[pwesson]

uses ShellAPI;

ShellExecute(Handle,'open',PChar('filename.pdf'),'', '', SW_SHOWNORMAL);

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[lespaul]

be sure to include SHELLAPI in the uses clause.

leslie

 

[clakerley]

Thank you! It worked like a charm....