Hi Borislav.
Thanks for that. I will include the error checking and hopefully get to the bottom of it.
Regards,
Gerard


>Every value greater that 32 means that ShellExecute is successful.
>If the returned value is smaller or equal than 32 then something is not right.
>Here some code for checking (taken from here http://www.oehive.org/node/528):
>

>LOCAL txt
>lnRetVal = ShellExecute(...)
>DO CASE 
>   CASE lnRetVal = 0 
>        txt = "The operating system is out of memory or resources."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 2 
>        txt = "The specified file was not found"
>   CASE lnRetVal = 3 
>        txt = "The specified path was not found."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 5 
>        txt = "Windows 95 only: The operating system denied access to the specified file"
>   CASE lnRetVal = 8 
>        txt = "Windows 95 only: There was not enough memory to complete the operation."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 10 
>        txt = "Wrong Windows version"
>   CASE lnRetVal = 11
>        txt = "The .EXE file is invalid (non-Win32 .EXE or error in .EXE image)."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 12
>        txt = "Application was designed for a different operating system"
>   CASE lnRetVal = 13
>        txt = "Application was designed for MS-DOS 4.0"
>   CASE lnRetVal = 15
>        txt = "Attempt to load a real-mode program"
>   CASE lnRetVal = 16
>        txt = "Attempt to load a second instance of an application with non-readonly data segments".
>   CASE lnRetVal = 19
>        txt = "Attempt to load a compressed application file"
>   CASE lnRetVal = 20
>        txt = "Dynamic-link library (DLL) file failure"
>   CASE lnRetVal = 26
>        txt = "A sharing violation occurred."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 27
>        txt = "The filename association is incomplete or invalid."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 28
>        txt = "The DDE transaction could not be completed because the request timed out."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 29 
>        txt = "The DDE transaction failed."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 30 
>        txt = "The DDE transaction could not be completed because other DDE transactions were being processed."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 31 
>        txt = "There is no application associated with the given filename extension."
>   CASE lnRetVal = 32
>        txt = "Windows 95 only: The specified dynamic-link library was not found."
>   CASE lnRetVal > 0
>        txt = "Undocumented"
>ENDCASE
>
>IF NOT EMPTY(txt)
>   MessageBox( txt)
>ENDIF
>
>

>
>>Hi Boris. Thanks for replying.
>>I will have to recompile, deploy on site, and then I can figure this out
>>What should it be for a successful display ?
>>Only want to Wait Window if its not successful
>>Regards,
>>Gerard
>>
>>
>>>>Hi.
>>>>Have the code below to view a PDF file, but file is not displaying on a new PC added to a network.
>>>>All others can see the PDF file
>>>>Also, if user goes in in Windows Explorer, PDF file comes up if user clicks on it, so Adobe seems to be installed ok
>>>>Any ideas ?
>>>>Tia
>>>>Gerard
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>&& -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>&& Show the PDF file
>>>>DECLARE Integer ShellExecute IN "Shell32.dll" ;
>>>>    INTEGER hwnd, ;
>>>>    STRING lpVerb, ;
>>>>    STRING lpFILE, ;
>>>>    STRING lpParameters ,;
>>>>    STRING lpDirectory, ;
>>>>    LONG nShowCmd
>>>>lcPDFFile = lcPdf
>>>>=Shellexecute(0,"Open",lcPdfFile,"","",3)
>>>>&& -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>

>>>
>>>What is the return value of ShellExecute?
>>>

>>>lnRetVal =Shellexecute(0,"Open",lcPdfFile,"","",3)
>>>WAIT WINDOW lnRetVal
>>>