System Command

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/17/2013 11:01 AM, Richard Tartaglia wrote:
> I am running FilePro 5.0.14 using windows XP.
>
> I have an @key process to save a PDF file or display that PDF saved in a
> blob field. Everything worked great until I updated Adobe to a newer
> version. Of course the system prompt can’t find Adobe until I update my
> code in FilePro to the new version of Adobe.
>
> Is there a way to get the version from windows, put it in a variable for
> FilePro and then use it for the prompt to display the PDF.

 From your description, I am going to assume that you start Adobe Reader by 
passing the full path to the executable, such as:

     "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe"

There's no need to do that.  If you have a PDF file with a ".pdf" extension, 
all you need to do is execute

     start \full\path\to\filename.pdf

and Windows will execute the default PDF reader, regardless of what program 
that is or where it's located.

Note, however, that there is a "feature" is the start command that you need 
to know about if the filename needs to be in quotes.  (For example, if the 
file is "c:\Documents and settings\Richard\temp\foo.pdf".)  If you were to 
execute a command such as:

     start "c:\path to\filename.pdf"

you will get a command prompt with "c:\path to\filename.pdf" as the window 
title.  To prevent this from happening, put a pair of quotes prior to the 
filename:

     start "" "c:\path to\filename.pdf"

-- 
Kenneth Brody