AcroForms Notification server beyond Acrobat 8

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September 12, 2016
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Is there any replacement for AcroForms Notification server in latest versions of Acrobat for AcroForms Notification server, which was deprecated in version 8?

Or in other words is there any way to get notification from the plugin that the form field value was changed?

Thanks

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Ok, not a server but an observer/callback. Yes, that seems to be deprecated but there are many callbacks still left. However, none related to a field being changed. I guess you are expected to do that with JavaScript now.

jozefb58429255Author

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I tried it with PDAnnotDidChange notification for now as it's appearance is expected to be changed with field's value, however I was curious to know if there is some replacement as there's no guarantee that the annotation will change it's appearance and it's more depended on the implementation in the Forms plugin.

Also I found that this observer/callback methods was very poorly documented in even in previous SDKs although it seems to be still working in Acrobat 11 (did not test DC yet...)

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I've been using Acrobat since 1.0 and don't recall hearing about any "Acroforms Notification Server". Nor does Google show up anything except this question. Is that definitely the right name? Do you have a reference to what it was you wanted to use?

jozefb58429255Author

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Yes I do. Acrobat SDK file afexp_t.h - look for "AF_NotificationProc" or "AF_NtfyParams_t" or in the documentation here:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/Acro12_MasterBook/API_References_SectionPage/API_References/Acrobat_API_Reference/Acrobat_Forms_Layer/AcroForm.html#AF_NotificationSelector_t470

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