how to hide text if certain app is detected...

[cbohlson]

One of my favorite things about AMS Version 2 was the ability to set up 2 different text "dialogues", one of which would be visible at runtime if a certain app (Acrobat, in this case) was detected in the registry of the end users computer. How in the heck do you do that in AMS4? I've tried repeatedly, but I can't find the proper combination of actions to duplicate my old front end page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

[TJ_Tigger]

Re: how to hide text if certain app is detected...

You could try something like this on page initialize.

Page.HideObject ("Text1")
%pdfviewer% = "NOTFOUND"
%pdfviewer% = File.GetDefaultViewer (".PDF")
IF (%pdfviewer% = "NOTFOUND")
Page.ShowObject ("Text1")
END IF

This sets the variable to "NOTFOUND" first and then checks to see if there is an application registered to open .pdf. If there is not one the variable %pdfviewer% will remain as "NOTFOUND" and you can show the object for installing the application. If it is not found the item will remain hidden.

[cbohlson]

Re: how to hide text if certain app is detected...

ooooooooo, cool, I'm gonna try that.
Thank you very much.

[cbohlson]

Re: how to hide text if certain app is detected...

Hey TJ,
I'm not real clever, but I'm not sure your solution is working. I tried it, and my object didn't appear at runtime. But as a sort of a test, I replaced all the "pdf" instances with "yyy" and got the same results, that being a hidden object. I know nothing about programming, but why wouldn't the 'if' statement be 'found', since you already have a 'notfound' in the command?

Thanks,
Bill

[TJ_Tigger]

Re: how to hide text if certain app is detected...

The properties I listed above you would want to put on Page Show or maybe Page Initialize. The "Text1" reference will be the name of the Text object or you could change it to a button instead. Let me put together a sample project for you to see if that helps.

Give me a few minutes

[TJ_Tigger]

Re: how to hide text if certain app is detected...

Give this a try.

click here

[cbohlson]

Re: how to hide text if certain app is detected...

TJ---Thanks very much! Your sample works great. That was very nice of you to go to all that trouble, and I really appreciate it.

Bill

[TJ_Tigger]

Re: how to hide text if certain app is detected...

Not a problem, I am glad it worked for you.