Sergey Liberman wrote: > I am trying to open an Adobe Acrobat document (a manual for my program) from > a LabVIEW program that will be deployed on a customer's computer. I was able > to do it using System Exec with a command line like > > "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\AcroRd32.exe" "C:\Manuals\My > Manual.pdf" > > For that, I needed to find the absolute path to the Acrobat Reader on the > target computer which I do by interrogating the Windows registry. It works > fine, but I have a feeling that the same goal can be achieved by simpler > means. Anyone can tip me on how to do it?
On Win NT/2K/XP you can call System Exec (minimized) with cmd /C start "" "c:\document\path.ext" That will open any document (or application) with the default application associated with the file extension. On Win 95/98/ME it is "command" instead of "cmd" but I didn't test it. Jean-Pierre Drolet www.avensys.ca
