Re: detecting installed application

"Dirk Ringe" <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:32:18 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.games.devel.windows
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

What happens if you run the PDF document via the ShellExecute command when no PDF reader is installed? Does the command fail or is the user annoyed with the choose your application dialog? If you can make the command fail then that would be the most secure check whether acrobat is installed...

Dirk

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Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 10:13
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Betreff: [GD-Windows] detecting installed application

Hi,
Is there an easy way to detect whether a specific application is installed
in Windows?

Our game runs from the CD tray (no install) and I want to provide a link to
our PDF manual. If the player has Acrobat installed, I want to open the
file, it they don't have acrobat installed, I want to ask the player if they
want it installed or not. So I need some way to detect whether Acrobat is
already installed.

Cheers,
Brett

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