Can’t get ‘thermometer’ to display when using adobe reader DC. It does display when using Adobe professional version.
Below is sample code I’m using.
var t = app.thermometer;
t.duration = doc.numPages;
t.begin();
for (p=0; p<doc.numPages; p++)
{
t.text = "Searching … page " + p + "/" + doc.numPages;
}
t.end();
Do you know that this code is error free? Is anything displayed in the console window?
The thermometer object is problematic in a couple of ways. First, your code doesn't increase the increment. This is a small point, but the increment is a redraw prompt for the thermometer. And redrawing is the second problem. The thermometer updates/redraws on free cpu cycles. Unfortunately the JavaScript engine does not allow for many of these, it's a bit of a hog. If your code is too tight the thermometer may never be drawn, or even it it is shown initially it might not update as expected.
If you really want a reliable progress bar, you should create one using form fields and annotations. This is much more reliable than the thermometer.
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