Re: Launching pdf from VC

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:33:43 -0800

Message-ID:

<EDDD8888-4A52-416E-948C-CE6B0AE596D4@microsoft.com>

To add to what Doug wrote... I think you could just call ShellExecute() with
a .pdf file type and the shell would resolve this for you. I haven't seen
anyone use this kind of code for a really long time and since you're using
C++ you may as well get all the benefit of it.

Tom

"DBC User" <dbcuser@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d7069faa-93be-4350-8aa1-7a284b40a01d@b2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

I have a vc1.52 code and there I am trying to launch a PDF file. This
is the code I have

/* SYSTEM.C: This program uses
* system to TYPE its source file.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <process.h>
void main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
   char cmd[256];
   int i=0;
for(i=0;i<argc;i++)
printf("%d - %s\n", i, argv[i]);
if (argc > 0)
   {
   system( argv[1] );
   }
   else
   {
   printf("No help file to show. Please contact support");
   }
}

I run the program like the following

test.exe test.pdf

when I run it gives an error 'bad command or file name', but when I
type just the name test,pdf in the dos mode, it opens up the pdf
properly. What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks.