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| Subject: Acrobat ActiveX control 7.x and higher does not work with Notes |
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| Product Area: Domino Designer on Eclipse (DDE) |
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| Technical Area: Error Message |
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| Platform: Windows XP client |
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| Release: 8.5.1 |
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| Reproducible: Always |
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Starting with Acrobat 7.0, Adobe changed from an ActiveX OCX file to an ActiveX DLL file. This ActiveX DLL does not work in any version of Notes. You can insert it, but when you try to open a form with this control in Domino Designer or the Notes client you get "An error has occurred while processing a request on an object." Trying to get a handle on the control programmatically generates more of the same errors. I have confirmed this happens on Notes versions 6.5.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.4, 8.0, 8.5 and 8.5.1. I have tried Acrobat Reader versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0.
Throughout all that testing, the OCX control from Acrobat 5 or 6 worked with every Notes version. I also verified the Acrobat DLL control from Acrobat Reader 7, 8 or 9 does work properly in IE7, IE8, Access 2003, VB6, VB.Net and C#. I can also embed a Microsoft Web Browser control (ieframe.dll) in Notes and set the URL to a PDF file; the Acrobat ActiveX DLL control loads inside an IE instance and works perfectly. It just doesn't work if you put the Acrobat ActiveX DLL directly on a Notes form.
This was previously reported here on the forum in 2006, but no one had a soultion: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/8f8307c49e21d88085257142003fe4e9?OpenDocument. I also blogged the problem with a screenshot from Domino Designer here: http://www.cubert.net/2009/12/problem-with-acrobat-reader-active-x.html . A reader commented that this happened on Vista. I was doing my testing on Windows XP and I have also tested on Windows 7, so it is not operating system specific.
I tried comparing Registry entries between a working ActiveX DLL (CTreeView Control, dmocx.dll) and the Adobe one, but there are just too many implementation-specific details for me to determine what might be causing the issue.
And finally, I tried completing an ESR but it just keeps prompting me to request access to submit ESR's. So I can't submit an ESR for this issue.
P.S. If you have read this far and want a partial workaround, use the following. I say partial because this only works if the document is in Edit mode. I couldn't get the Web Browser control to navigate to a URL in Read mode.
1. Insert a Microsoft Web Browser control
2. Click the Applet menu that appears in the top menubar and select Object Properties. Note that in Designer if you click off the control the Applet menu will go away, and you can't re-select this control with the mouse. You'll need to select it from the Object panel beside the Programmer's Pane to get the Applet menu to reappear.
3. Change the name to something without spaces. I use WB in the example below.
4. Put this in an appropriate event. I'm using PostOpen for testing.
Postopen(Source As Notesuidocument)
Dim ie As Variant
Set ie = source.GetObject("WB")
Call ie.navigate("file://c:\path\file.pdf")
ie.visible = True
End Sub
 
Feedback number WEBB7YSMBR created by ~Fred Chuveluplopakoi on 12/16/2009
Status: Open
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