Jonathan wrote:
> I've written a "user's manual" for my application and converted it into a 
> PDF. I'd like to "link" to it from the Help menu (Fl_Menu_Bar) on my app. So 
> far, I've done it with system("Manual.pdf") which is really awful. It opens a 
> console and loads the PDF but it seems to take ages and it renders the app 
> unusable until I close the PDF reader.
> 
> How would you do this (in WIN32)?

You didn't write which FLTK version, I assume 1.x.

You should try fl_open_uri():

http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.1/functions.html#fl_open_uri

> Bonus question: How would you do it multi-platform? :)

Same answer :-)

Albrecht
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