Adobe is installed, and it will display the pdf using the command window.

Not sure about shellexecute's return value, I can't seem to see anything in
the debugger...

James E Harvey
Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc.
M.I.S./Corresponding Officer
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Paul McNett
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:12 PM
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: Re: pdf in vfp

Paul McNett wrote:
> Jim Harvey wrote:
>> This doesn't work using a pdf (no error returned, just doesn't do
anything),
>> but does with a jpg file, is it possible with a pdf?
>>
>> ***commandbutton.click
>>
>> mcheck = alltrim(checks.pathname) + ALLTRIM(checks.filename) + ".pdf"
>>
>> declare long ShellExecute in "shell32.dll" ;
>>      long hwnd, ;
>>      string lpszOp, ;
>>      string lpszFile, ;
>>      string lpszParams, ;
>>      string lpszDir, ;
>>      long nShowCmd
>> ShellExecute(0,'Open',(mcheck),'','',0)
> 
> Do you have a PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, installed on the 
> system (apologies if that sounds like a stupid question)?

Also, what's the return value of ShellExecute?

If you open a DOS window and type:

start <path_to.pdf>

You should get your PDF reader opened displaying the PDF. Does this work?

Paul


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