Add Acrobat Reader XI AxtiveX to Gupta (Centura) Team Developer 3.0 project

Question

I have to make some changes to a large reporting application, built with centrua team developer 3.0 (tpf3).

One of the changes is to enable to open reports with a more recent version of acrobat reader. There is a .apl file that works with the activex that came with acrobat reader 6.0, and that is still working. After adding (creating) a .apl file for the Adobe Acrobat Browser Control Type Library 1.0, I compiled all my sources, but got this error:

activex creation failed

Is it possible to add the AcroPDF.dll into a project that is done with CTD 3.0, or do we need to upgrade to CTD 6.x ? Did someone already implement Reader XI into a CTD project ?

Thank you in advance for any help with this.

Answer 1

I can confirm that with TD3.1 PTF4 I get the same problem when creating an apl and then compiling the application.

I tried to do the same with TD6.2 and it worked properly. I was able to open and show a PDF-Document with just one line of code.

What I did: I started TD62 ActiveX-Explorer, created a Adobe Acrobat Browser Control Type Library 1.0.apl with option Generate Full by Name, used the control in a form window and called

Set bRet = axAcrobat.LoadFile( sFilename, bOk )