How to programmatically focus a field in a dialog?

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January 30, 2018
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I don't see a focus() method documented under the dialog documentation but when I inspect the dialog keys I see that one of them is focus. Is there a way to accomplish this?

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JR Boulay

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Is there any documentation on undocumented functions?

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try67

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Sure. It's available in a book written in Ancient Sanskrit, sold only by Blockbuster.

try67

Community Expert

Where did you see that?

Thom Parker

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Yes, there is an undocumented Focus function in the runtime dialog object. Its input is the item_id of target field.

There are many undocumented functions, properties, and options for the dialog object. Some are undocumented because they are incomplete, or never worked out. But for some it's just like Adobe just decided scripting wasn't important and stopped development/support. Documenting something means you have to support it.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

try67

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Yeah, I'm aware of many of these functions (like the image loading one), but wasn't aware of the focus option, except for the first_tab parameter. Neat.

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