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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bremer Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:49 PM To: Active State Perl Subject: Calling Acrobat Reader I'm developing a nice little program that will search a directory on another server and return the results based upon several search criteria. The files being listed as the result of the search are PDF files. I would like to offer an option in this program to allow the user to select a file and then have the program start Acrobat Reader opening the selected file. I have all but this last bit down and I'll explain further. I have gotten to the part where the user selects the file and I am trying to open it with: system('AcroRd32.exe',$List[$Reply][2]); I have verified that $List[$Reply][2] contains a fully qualified UNC-path and filename. The results are: 'AcroRd32.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. So, we now know that the Acrobat Reader in not in the system path. In fact, its exact location can very from machine to machine. On my machine, it is: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader Note that based upon the version (dating back to 4.x), the path can change. This would make it difficult using a brute-force approach to locating the executable. But Windows knows where AcroRd32.exe lives and knows that when you double-click on a PDF-file to execute it. How can I emulate this behavior so that the Perl program can determine no matter where the executable lives on a given user's PC, and for that matter, whatever the executable name is that is associated with opening PDF-files is, the executable name and its path. I would imagine that this will require some search of the registry which I have no experience with from within Perl. I would like any methodology to be used to be relatively fast in locating the executable. Dirk Bremer - Senior Systems Engineer - ESS/AMS - NISC Lake St. Louis MO - USA Central Time Zone 636-755-2652 fax 636-755-2503 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.nisc.coop _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
