script to ask user click a form field then change the field

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
May 19, 2020
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Folks,

Does any one have a sample javascript code which

1. Ask user to click a text field.

2. Script get the name of the text field which user clicked.

3. Input something into the text field.

Thank you for your help.

--AL

Acrobat SDK and JavaScript

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try67

Community Expert

There's no way to do that with just a single script. You'll need to attach a script to the On Focus event of each field in the file to be able to detect which field they selected.

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firstl89140650Author

Participant

Thanks for your time.

I am a beginner, I just form SOME form fields in my pdf.

My temperary fix is like this:

function formatThis()
{
   var fldName = event.target.name;
   var fld = this.getField( fldName );
   fld.alignment = 'right';
   fld.setAction("Format", "AFNumber_Format(0, 0, 0, 0, '', true);");

app.beep(0);
app.alert(' formated field: ' + fldName,3);
}

var fldCnt =0 ;
var textCnt = 0 ;
var selTextCnt = 0;

for ( var i=0; i < this.numFields; i++) {
fldCnt += 1;

var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i));

    f.setAction("MouseUp", " ");
    if ( f.type == 'text' ){
        textCnt += 1;
        f.setAction('MouseUp', 'formatThis()' );
    }
}

console.println( 'field cnt='+ fldCnt ) ;
console.println( 'text cnt='+ textCnt );
console.println( 'text sel='+ selTextCnt );

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