From: dean.earley@icode.co.uk   
      
   Tim Reed wrote:   
   > Hello ... my Dad is dabbling in VB & has a question about invoking a PDF (to   
   > display a help file or manual).  Myself, I don't know VB - but I *do* know   
   > how to post to a NG .  If anyone has a solution, I would pass it on with   
   > appreciation.  Thanks!      - Tim   
   >   
   > =====================================   
   >   
   > I'd like to include in a Visual Basic (VB6) program a command that would   
   > bring up the User's Manual.  I'm pretty much settled on the idea that the   
   > manual should be an Acrobat .pdf file (as being the most common   
   > denominator).   
   >   
   > It's easy enough to have a statement like:   
   >   
   >      Shell ("... (tree path) ... Acrord32.exe  FileName.pdf,   
   > vbMaximizedFocus)   
   >   
   > which works fine on my machine, where I know what the pathname is, but the   
   > problem is, based on a review of our two computers and another, that the   
   > user's machine might have any of a half-dozen versions of acrobat's   
   > PDFreader.  So how to find the path and name?   
   >   
   > It occurs to me that Windows has some way of solving this.  Click on any   
   > .pdf file and Windows opens it with whatever Acrobat reader it chooses  (not   
   > neccessarily the latest version on the computer).  How does Windows locate a   
   > reader? Is there a simple way I can have my program find it?  Or better   
   > still, get it found by some Windows default?   
      
   Use ShellExecute :)   
   http://hashvb.earlsoft.co.uk/ShellExecute   
      
   This does all the stuff needed to find the app and open the document.   
      
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   Dean Earley (dean.earley@icode.co.uk)   
   i-Catcher Development Team   
      
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