> 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)?
Probably via CreateProcess(...) although it's usage confuses me, too
many parameters... Or maybe via ShellExecute(...) (ditto on its params
though!)
> Bonus question: How would you do it multi-platform? :)
I don't think there is a one size fits all solution, but the *nix-like
systems (linux, OSX, etc...) can probably all fork and exec the PDF
viewer process, so a few "#ifdef WIN32" hacks ought to get something
working.
That said, the file "fl_open_uri.cxx" in the fltk src dir implements
basically this mechanism, to open a set of well-known URI's (of which
PDF is not one, unfortunately!)
Should be easy enough to tweak that code to do what you want though, I
would think.
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