Servoy 3.1

Classic Servoy
41

Has the behaviour of application.showURL() changed in developer with 3.1?

I use Servoy Offline, and this was working fine in a method to show a pdf.

application.showURL("00000444.pdf")

Now I get a message in the status bar

If running in client this url is shown in browser:

Is there an alternative way to open a PDF from Servoy Offline?

42

Hi Tony,

Are you trying to open a PDF from a (web) server or are you trying to open a PDF in your database?
Also ‘00000444.pdf’ is not an URL…it’s a filename.
So I am wondering what you expect it to do.

43

Hi, I’m looking for a cross-platform way of opening a PDF file on the local machine, without having to specify a path to Acrobat. The filename is stored in a dataprovider. If you enter a path/filename into application.showURL() it will open that file with its default application, so it seems like a neat way to achieve this. It’s the same as entering the URL file:///C:/Program%20Files/Servoy/PDF/00000444.pdf

It used to work just fine, prior to 3.1

I’ve now changed to this approach

if(plugins.file.convertToJSFile(PDFfile).isFile())
{
	if (utils.stringLeftWords(application.getOSName(), 1) == "Mac")
	{
		application.executeProgram('open', '-a', 'preview', PDFfile )
	}
	else
	{
		application.executeProgram("cmd.exe", "/c", PDFfile )

//		application.showURL(PDFfile)
	}
}
else
{
	plugins.dialogs.showErrorDialog( "Error",  "The file " + PDFfile  + " was not found in the PDF folder",  "OK")
}

Alternatively I could store the PDF in a dataprovider.

44

look here:

http://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?t=1005

45

Excellent, thanks for the link!

46

I want to know when will the “Multi Developer Lite” license format will be available?

We cannot afford to buy a full license for 5000 bucks.

Thanks!

47

faheemhameed:
I want to know when will the “Multi Developer Lite” license format will be available?

We cannot afford to buy a full license for 5000 bucks.

Thanks!

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