Adobe ActiveX

[amaglio]

I have the Adobe ActiveX control on my front panel, and I am loading PDFs for viewing no problem. I was wondering if anyone knew a way of how I could programmatically search for a text in the PDF without actually having to manually type text into search box and then click search... It does not seem that there is an available method to do this. Would I be able to do this by messing around with the API? Thanks for your help.

-Anthony

[falkpl]

LabVIEW has a class browser for this which is an awsome tool (ctrl-shift-b)  you can quickly seachs an activeX for methods and properties, after 30 sec I came up with

Acrobat.cAcroAVDoc.Find text  this might be what you need, either wa I would use this class browser and hope the naming convention for the activeX is readable (that is that the method \names clue you into their usage).

[amaglio]

Wow, that is a really cool tool. I never knew about that. I found the same method you found, but cannot get it to work with the PDF viewer that goes on the Front Panel.... Check out the attached VI. Thanks alot for your help.