Re: Best way to embed a document in an MFC Application
You can easily create a window to embed a PDF file using the PDF ActiveX. I
do this in my code and it's worked since Version 6 of the Acrobat Reader.
The user will need to have Acrobat Reader installed.
You can embed XLS files as OLE objects, but the user will have to have
Office installed for it to work.
If the image is a JPG or PNG or something like that you could use GDI+ or
CImage (MFC) to display it.
If you only need a thumbnail you may consider just hooking into Explorer's
thumbnail viewer interface IExtractImage and that can get a thumbnail (or
larger preview) of any file that has a view registered with Explorer.
Tom
"eikeyti" <eikeyti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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somewhere in the view i need to display a document. primarily it could be
a
pdf, an xls or an image.
the user will configure the application specifing a path where the file
resides, then opening the view, there will be a place where the document
is
shown.
I see two possible ways:
- using CHtmlView and passing the file as an url
- using embedded OLE Objects (CRichEditView?)
do you know of other better/simpler approach?
what method would yuou pick?
thanks in advance