I need a little help.

I have added a button to my VB program to launch an IE window. It works fine but in order to make it work I put the file out on the internet and I call it there.

How would I do it locally?

not really get it what's your problem....

Put the HTML file locally?

Here is what I am doing.

When the user clicks on the help button in my Visual Basic Application, I call this function:

ShellExecute 0, "Open", "www.gelsana.com/Dmm_Ri4152A_BETA/Vendor/Doc/m4152a.pdf", 0, 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL

But that means I have the pdf file out on the internet. I want it to be on their comuter when they lanuch ShellExecute

Athono,


The ShellExecute API is act like the double click and some context menu operation (eg: Edit, View & etc) on the particular file. For you to open PDF file locally, instead of pointing to URL, you can point it to a local file.


Happy Coding

then, just enclose the pdf in your application and call it there?

ShellExecute 0, "Open", "./m4152a.pdf", 0, 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL

if you place the m4152a.pdf in the same folder with your application.

Anyway, I believe IE will download the file into the cache. Technically, it is still accessing the local one.

By the way, beside using ShellExecute, you can also use CreateProcess which offer more control. You can even use VBA for Acrobat, like this one.

http://www.igetit.net/SampleCode/Adobe_Acrobat_vba_code.asp

Thanks, all.