With the help of VBA - check to see if Acrobat Pro is open on the computer of the users

Hi all. I have an access request that generates a lot of single page PDF reports in a folder on the user's computer, then when it's over, it combines all files in a single pdf file on the desktop of users. If the user has left open Acrobat Pro before it begins to run reports, when it starts to try to combine the files, he will receive an error message.

I would check if Adobe Acrobat Pro is open from the beginning of the routine, so that the user doesn't have to spend as much time regenerating reports yet. I was not able to find the VBA code that will do this. Can anyone help?

Thank you

David

Hello test screen name. I do catch the error and generate a friendly error message to ask the user to close Adobe Acrobat. The problem is, according to the criteria they choose for the report, it might take 5-10 minutes before you still see this error because of the hundreds of individual reports pdf it takes to generate. It is not until my code is ready to combine these pdf files they see the message. So, it is not really an error of execution, so to speak.

But, I found the answer to my question and I wanted to share with everyone. The answers are found here:

API: Whether an application is running

API: Get the class name of a running application

What I did, is to paste all of the code in these 2 pages in a new module of access. Then I made sure that Adobe Acrobat is loaded on my machine. I ran the fEnumWindows() void and it printed all my open programs class names. I got the class name for Adobe Acrobat, which is AcrobatSDIWindow. Then, I modified the select case statement in the following function, to include the Acrobat of the string and the name of the class:

[code]

Function fIsAppRunning (ByVal strAppName As String _

Optional FActivate As Boolean) As Boolean

Dim lngH As Long, strClassName As String

Dim GNLX As Long, lngTmp As Long

Const WM_USER = 1024

On Local Error GoTo fIsAppRunning_Err

fIsAppRunning = False

Select Case LCase$ (strAppName)

Case "excel": strClassName = "XLMain".

Case "word": strClassName = "OpusApp".

'Access' box: strClassName = 'Omain '.

Case "powerpoint95": strClassName = "PP7FrameClass.

Case "powerpoint97": strClassName = "PP97FrameClass.

Case 'Notepad': strClassName = "Notepad".

Case 'acrobat': strClassName = "AcrobatSDIWindow."

Case "wordpad": strClassName = "WordPadClass."

Case Else: strClassName = vbNullString

Select end

If strClassName = "" then

lngH = apiFindWindow (vbNullString, strAppName)

On the other

lngH = apiFindWindow (strClassName, vbNullString)

End If

If lngH <> 0 Then

apiSendMessage lngH WM_USER + 18, 0, 0

GNLX = apiIsIconic (lngH)

If GNLX <> 0 Then

lngTmp = apiShowWindow (lngH, SW_SHOWNORMAL)

End If

If fActivate then

lngTmp = apiSetForegroundWindow (lngH)

End If

fIsAppRunning = True

End If

fIsAppRunning_Exit:

Exit Function

fIsAppRunning_Err:

fIsAppRunning = False

CV fIsAppRunning_Exit

End Function

[/ code]

Now I can just send 'acrobat' this function to see if the application is open.

Sincerely,

David

Tags: Acrobat

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