How to tell if the user open the form in IE Browser

[Former Community Member]

I like to know if there is a function in the javascript which I can tell



the user open the form in IE browser or desktop acrobat reader.



Thanks for your help in advance.

[Mark_Lindberg]

Take a look at the External property of Doc.

I have not used it before, but it is listed in the API reference.



Detect whether this document is in a browser or not.

if ( this.external )

{

// Viewing from a browser

}

else

{

// Viewing in the Acrobat application.

}



Mark

[Former Community Member]

hi Mark,



Try your suggestion for this.external,it always returns undefined whether opening the form in Acrobat reader or IE Browser.



also try event.target.external, i have same result returning undefined.



Ed

[Mark_Lindberg]

Ed:

The code I supplied earlier was out of the JS guide.

I also got the undefined result.

I tried the code below in a button on the form and had success:



if ( event.target.external )

{

// Viewing from a browser

app.alert("browser: " + event.target.external)

}

else

{

// Viewing in the Acrobat application.

app.alert("Acrobat: " + event.target.external)

}



In what place are you putting the code (control & event)?.

What versions of Acrobat & Browser are you using?



Mark