Re: Problem with W2k, Adobe and shellexecute HELP

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From: Michael W. Diebold
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00

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This also happens outside of the IDE as well.  It's very sporadic on the
clients workstations.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you
Michael

"Gary Williams" <2FC5DB7F@garywilliams.us> wrote in message
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>
> Michael W. Diebold wrote:
> > Trying to open a .pdf file with shellexecute only brings up Adobe splash
> > screen then quits.  Does anybody have a solution to this.
> >
> > ShellExecute(Handle, PChar('open'), PChar(TheFileName),nil , nil,
> > sw_shownormal);
> >
> > I created a .bat file that opens Adobe, and called that with
Shellexecute,
> > and got the same result.  I've also tried the third party componenet
> > AppExec, and that produced the same results as well.
>
> This is a very common problem.  Simply running the application outside of
> the IDE solves it for most people.
>
> -Gary
>
>

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