Open pdf file with button in VB 2005

[Jedi10180]

I am making a CD for the non-profit organization I work for. The CD contains
all of the publications that we publish and will contain a GUI to access
them. When the user clicks on a publication button in the GUI, the pdf of the
publication needs to open in an Adobe Reader/Acrobat window. I can't figure
out how to make this work in VB.

I was told to try this:
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>You'd want to use ShellExecute, as shown on
>http://vb.mvps.org/samples/hyperjmp...
>
> Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dl l" Alias
>"ShellExecuteA " (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal
>lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String,
>ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
>
> Public Function OpenDoc(ByVal DocFile As String) As Long
> ' Actually uses the default verb if available, and "open" otherwise
> OpenDoc = ShellExecute(0& , vbNullString, DocFile, vbNullString,
>vbNullString , vbNormalFocus)
> End Function
>
>Pass the path/name of the desired PDF to this OpenDoc function.[/color]

I've tried that, but now my problem is I've been messing around with
ShellExecute for awhile and I'm having issues.
I don't think I'm passing the path/name of the PDF to the OpenDoc function
correctly. If I have a button named 'PDF', that calls the OpenDoc function
and passes the path/filename to it when it's clicked, what would the function
call look like?

Thanks for any help.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Open pdf file with button in VB 2005

"Jedi10180" <Jedi10180@disc ussions.microso ft.com> schrieb:[color=blue]
>I am making a CD for the non-profit organization I work for. The CD
>contains
> all of the publications that we publish and will contain a GUI to access
> them. When the user clicks on a publication button in the GUI, the pdf of
> the
> publication needs to open in an Adobe Reader/Acrobat window. I can't
> figure
> out how to make this work in VB.[/color]

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[Paul Bromley]

Re: Open pdf file with button in VB 2005

In VB2003, embedding the Adobe Acrobat 7 Browser Document control in the
project works well for me, but I have not been able to find out the
licensing implications, of using this in a VB.NET project. The user needs to
install Acrobat Reader 7 on their machine. Can anyone confirm if this is an
acceptable use or not for the control??

Code:-

With AxPDF1
..Visible = True
..setShowToolba r((True))
..LoadFile("C:\ Statement.pdf")
Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default
..Show()
..Select()
..SuspendLayout ()
End With

Best wishes

Paul Bromley

"Jedi10180" <Jedi10180@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
news:010E5C93-B77A-45E4-A634-58425585E203@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
>I am making a CD for the non-profit organization I work for. The CD
>contains
> all of the publications that we publish and will contain a GUI to access
> them. When the user clicks on a publication button in the GUI, the pdf of
> the
> publication needs to open in an Adobe Reader/Acrobat window. I can't
> figure
> out how to make this work in VB.
>
> I was told to try this:
>[color=green]
>>You'd want to use ShellExecute, as shown on
>>http://vb.mvps.org/samples/hyperjmp...
>>
>> Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dl l" Alias
>>"ShellExecute A" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal
>>lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As
>>String,
>>ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
>>
>> Public Function OpenDoc(ByVal DocFile As String) As Long
>> ' Actually uses the default verb if available, and "open" otherwise
>> OpenDoc = ShellExecute(0& , vbNullString, DocFile, vbNullString,
>>vbNullStrin g, vbNormalFocus)
>> End Function
>>
>>Pass the path/name of the desired PDF to this OpenDoc function.[/color]
>
> I've tried that, but now my problem is I've been messing around with
> ShellExecute for awhile and I'm having issues.
> I don't think I'm passing the path/name of the PDF to the OpenDoc function
> correctly. If I have a button named 'PDF', that calls the OpenDoc function
> and passes the path/filename to it when it's clicked, what would the
> function
> call look like?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>[/color]

[PJ on Development]

Re: Open pdf file with button in VB 2005

Paul,

The Acrobat Reader is a free tool, and as such can be freely
distributed.

Licensing implication would occur only if the software used
technologies from the Acrobat Generator (I forgot the proper name),
which I think it's not the case.

All in all, it's a good thing to ship the Acrobat Reader with the
application and install it on the user machine, warning the user of
such behavior (Can some one spell SONY? ;-)

It would be a good thing too to check if the user box has already the
Acrobat Reader installed (at least the bare minimum to read the docs)
before installing.

Regards,

PJ

http://pjondevelopment.50webs.com/

[Paul Bromley]

Re: Open pdf file with button in VB 2005

Thanks PJ

The reason I ask is that other PDF viewer controls seem to be so expensive.
Installing Reader 7 seems a small price to pay to use this control in your
applications.

Best wishes

Paul


"PJ on Development" <pjondevelopmen t@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1137023232 .127420.316900@ g49g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> Paul,
>
> The Acrobat Reader is a free tool, and as such can be freely
> distributed.
>
> Licensing implication would occur only if the software used
> technologies from the Acrobat Generator (I forgot the proper name),
> which I think it's not the case.
>
> All in all, it's a good thing to ship the Acrobat Reader with the
> application and install it on the user machine, warning the user of
> such behavior (Can some one spell SONY? ;-)
>
> It would be a good thing too to check if the user box has already the
> Acrobat Reader installed (at least the bare minimum to read the docs)
> before installing.
>
> Regards,
>
> PJ
> http://pjondevelopment.50webs.com/
>[/color]