Thanks Andrei, I was hoping that I wouldn't have to do that, although
it seems easy enough.  It appears to be not an issue now as we're
launching a tab using wxIEHtmlWin for the service documentation, and
Adobe Reader launches from there just by using the *.pdf link.

Andrei <project5@[...].net>  wrote in message news:<14xjk0zcffu0j.qz20rh1ujyie$.dlg@[...].net
> ...
>  Greg wrote on 26 May 2004 10:12:59 -0700:
>  
>  > for a pdf document, but Adobe Reader doesn't start.  Is there a
>  > special call I will have to use in the HTML code instead of ahref to
>  > get Reader to launch?
>  
>  You chould subclass wxHtmlWindow and implement the OnLinkClicked methos:
>      def OnLinkClicked(self, linkinfo):
>          # do something with linkinfo.GetHref()
>  
>  That "something" could be a system command to open the Href with the
>  default app for that file type. 
>  
>  -- 
>  Yours,
>  
>  Andrei
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