launching Adobe Reader from wxHTMLwindow

[Greg]

Thanks Andrei, I was hoping that I wouldn't have to do that, although
it seems easy enough.  It appears to be not an issue now as we're
launching a tab using wxIEHtmlWin for the service documentation, and
Adobe Reader launches from there just by using the *.pdf link.

Andrei <project5 at redrival.net> wrote in message news:<14xjk0zcffu0j.qz20rh1ujyie$.dlg at 40tude.net>...
> Greg wrote on 26 May 2004 10:12:59 -0700:
> 
> > for a pdf document, but Adobe Reader doesn't start.  Is there a
> > special call I will have to use in the HTML code instead of ahref to
> > get Reader to launch?
> 
> You chould subclass wxHtmlWindow and implement the OnLinkClicked methos:
>     def OnLinkClicked(self, linkinfo):
>         # do something with linkinfo.GetHref()
> 
> That "something" could be a system command to open the Href with the
> default app for that file type. 
> 
> -- 
> Yours,
> 
> Andrei
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