PDF Display in FileproGI

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/23/2015 4:21 PM, WILLIAM LUCCA via Filepro-list wrote:
> I have a client uses Filepro 5.8 for Windows.  Most users have a default
> printer that uses the fpml type to display reports as PDF's to the screen
> (destination file PDF:[open]). They have recently installed FileproGI and
> now when using it, the reports no longer come to the screen as PDF's.  Is
> there a way to get this functionality in FileproGI?  Does my client need
> the Developer's tool kit to do this, or is there another way?  In either
> case, what coding needs to be done?

If you are running GI server as a service, then any program it starts is 
also running as a service.  Windows prevents services from accessing the 
desktop, unless you select "allow service to interact with desktop" in the 
service's properties.  (And, even if you do set this, some versions of 
Windows create a separate desktop on which the service will run, which is 
not visible to the user unless you do some "magic", which I have forgotten, 
and other versions will ignore this setting entirely unless you do some 
other "magic".)

In short, filePro *is* starting the PDF reader, but Windows itself has 
placed it on a non-existent desktop.

This is the rules of Windows when running services.

-- 
Kenneth Brody