According to online docs:
FolderItem.Open (activate As [Boolean]= True)
New in 2019r2.1
Supported for all project types and targets.
Doesn’t work in iOS
How do you create a PDF and open it using something else?
If I try to SHARE the file using it’s URLPath, and the user tries to Markup, the whole system becomes unresponsive.
So I want to hand off the display to another app
Is this miraculous timing ? Roadnap #2
No.
Awful timing really.
I don’t need Xojo to allow me to create PDFs -this roadmap item is no use to me.
I have spent a lot of money on MBS plugins to do that, and thankfully that part is working fine.
I want to have the PDF displayed once it is created.
The docs say Folderitem.open is available on all platforms
It isn’t available in iOS
ShowURL doesnt work.
I thought MBS might solve it with LaunchServicesMBS but that doesn’t launch the PDF either.
So I’m still looking for a way to display a PDF I created.
(I don’t want to display it in an HTMLViewer which is part of my app.
I want the user to be able to display it, print it, share it, copy it to iCloud.
None of those are possible in an HTMLViewer)
You can show a PDF on iOS with PDFKit, DynaPDF or CoreGraphics functions in MBS Xojo Plugins or via declares.
Or even Picture.Open or Picture.FromData may work if Xojo did implement that with a PDF friendly API.
Use a MobileSharingPanel to show a PDF on iOS.
SharingPanel1.ShareURL(pdfFolderItem.URLPath)
This completely hangs my iPad if the user chooses ‘Markup’ from the options.
Works fine in simulator, hangs a device.
I cant ship like that and have no idea how to avoid it
You can show a PDF on iOS with [PDFKit]
I can render a PDF to a picture using plugins.
What I am trying to do is to get ‘a.n.other’ app to handle the PDF.
Adobe / Preview / GoodReader …
Steps: For now we can share Picture, Text and URL. Would be also helpful and important to add a new ShareFile Method to MobileSharingPanel to share a FolderItem.
Sharing a file already ‘works’… thats how I get the sharing panel up for other kinds of files:
myview.Share.Shareurl(specialfolder.documents.child(filename).URLPath,theoptions, cell.Control)
In v 2022 4.1 there’s no sharing panel and viewing a pdf in a web html viewer in iOS does not have any controls and only shows one page
Looks like the sharing panel is only in the iOS version of Xojo. I’m doing a straight web app.
Oh, I understood for your question that it was iOS. 
I think he is running a web app on an iPhone. Confusing…
Yes . . . I’m not going to pay $600 and rewrite everything to make an iOS app for not a lot of customers.
My app creates a pdf as a webfile and then shows the pdf in an webHTMLviewer. On Windows and macIOS the entire pdf shows. In iOS no controls show and one only one page shows.
I am surprised to hear that a webHTMLViewer shows controls on Windows and MacOs. (The Desktop one didn’t, last time I looked at it)
You may have better luck offering a download button, as iOS should then be able to divert the PDF to either Safari or iBooks for display.
and then the user has to log into the app again . . . Any other ideas?
Only 'why does the user have to log in again just because they have downloaded a file?’
Obviously there is stuff going on with Web that I don’t know about.
Are you saying that opening a PDF in iBooks or Safari kills your app’s session?
That doesn’t sound right - but I don’t ‘do’ web
