Re: detecting installed application

I thought it would pop up that dialog that asks how to choose which 
application to open the file. I didn't think it would fail and return 
control to me. I'll check on this though...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Ringe" <[email protected]>
To: "Game Development for MS Windows" 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] detecting installed application


> 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
> An: [email protected]
> 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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