browse pdf and open it

[Gerbrand]

Hi,

Hope anyone can help me with the following. I would like to browse a folder, select a pdf and open it with acrobat.

Should be simple but can not make it work.

Thanks for any help.

[TJ_Tigger]

Can you post the code you are currently using?

[TJ_Tigger]

One thing that always threw me was that the Dialog.FileBrowse action returns a table and not a string. So when you are opening your file make sure you reference the index for the file selected.

tbFiles = Dialog.FileBrowse(true, "Select PDF", Shell.GetFolder(SHF_MYDOCUMENTS), "Adobe PDF(*.pdf)|*.pdf| All Files(*.*)|*.*|", "", "", false, true);
if tbFiles then
	File.Open(tbFiles[1], "", SW_SHOWNORMAL);
end

[Stefan_M]

Demo project with two solutions.


Stefan_M


Speedy Tigger was faster

[longedge]

One of the items on my list of things to do is to try and get to the bottom of why Acrobat Reader 7 is causing us problems with apparently broken associations. I can't for the life of me understand why Adobe imposed restrictions on including the reader on distributions.

It used to be 100% reliable when you could run the executable from your own CD - now it's a real pain. I've started to avoid pdf's where I can.