Open PDF document through JavaFX

Question

Hello All,
I want to open pdf document when user clicks on "Help" link in JavaFX. PDF document is usually locally stored on user's machine.
How I can achieve this ?
thnx in advance,
Venky

Answer 1

Will it work for Linux ?No, of course.
I think you must do something like:
var params = [ 'cmd', '/c', pdfFilePath ]; on Windows
var params = [ 'open', pdfFilePath ] on Mac
var params = [ 'gnome-open', pdfFilePath ] on Linux with Gnome
var params = [ 'kde-open', pdfFilePath ] on Linux with KDE
then your Runtime.getRuntime().exec(params);
You can catch exceptions if you are not sure of the platform (particularly Gnome vs. KDE): if raised, try something else...
That's how Processing does its open() function. (Untested in JavaFX...)