activex

[Yamaeda]

Hi guys,

I've done a small vi that prints a pdf-file through activex. It seemed to work fine (and showed to be quite similar to a posted vi on the forums), until i called it from another vi, that is.

I got the error "Must be a user interface", which i set through vi-properties.

I got a empty window hanging which didn't close until labview was closed, which seemed to be a timing issue, so i've added a 3 sec delay to be sure acrobats activex-control is loaded before closing it.

Now, the real problem which i cant seem to get around:

When the activex-control is called, it opens Acrobat Reader (as a separate window), and i dont want it to do that. If it has to, i atleast want to keep it minimized and/or closed afterwards.

Any ideas?

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[Mathan]

Please post what you have did so for or just give a screenshot

[Yamaeda]

So far:

"print-test" uses my "print pdf" to write a .pdf and acrobat reader opens and never closes. If minimized it pops in front.

[Yamaeda · Accepted solution]

After some more "fishing the sea" (searching the internet), i found out it's a Acrobat-bug. Apparently it happened to alot of VB-people using Acrobat 8 (guess what i'm using).

I tried installing version 9, and now it's perfectly silent, no Acrobat window opens at all.

However, i'm not sure which versions will be at the users computers, so i added a small hotfix. After printing, the Appliction does a "Bring to Front" so regardless if i get the Acrobat window or not, the VI will be in front and accessible.

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[Mathan]

Excellent. Thanks for the update. Tossed you five (Sorry now kudos).