Sanchez Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Hi, My application runs on full screen mode on a touch screen panel, we don't want the user to go to Windows to play around so the only way they can go to Windows is by pluging in a keyboard or if they have a password that I put to close DAQFactory. However, we need to display some manuals in pdf format, the way I am doing that is with a button with this code: system.ShellExecute("C:\IPC11000\I&Os\MyManual.pdf") However this opens the PDF reader on top of DAQFactory therefore exposing Windows to the user. Is there a way to display PDF files inside a DAQFactory window? just like the help displays HTML. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 You could use system.helpwindow(). This displays a popup with a browser in it. The browser has no transport controls and gives you no access to anything else but what you specify. You can, instead of specifying and HTML file, specify a PDF and the browser will fire up Acrobat inside it and display the PDF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanchez Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 That works perfectly! Is this a feature of the latest versions? I think before with version 5.35 you couldn't do that. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 I don't remember. I'd have to look at the revision list. 5.35 is several years old and I don't remember that far back. I guess I'm showing my age My guess is it came in under 5.70. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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