Using Javascript to define button actions

Question

HI all, I have adobe acrobat dc pro. I have a document that I want to add a button that opens an accordion like paragraph below it. Adobe does not give any error codes on the code, which is html, css, and javascript combined. However, when the button is clicked, nothing happens. I created another button on the same page to open google and it works so i know it s not an error in the button function overall. Here is the code I am trying to use. I have tried creating a document javascript, and a action javascript and nothing seems to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated! My overall plan is to try and code into the document an accordion function, since it is not built in.

try67 · Accepted Answer

Hi, so I am not really sure what isn't working here. I have limited coding experience, but I do know a little matlab and in that coding the rect[1] is getting changed because on the first click it would change it to the new rect[1] because the original statement meets the condition. But I don't know javascript so maybe I'm missing something??? If you could explain a little more what you mean that would be awesome!

Here's the code. I changed it a little but as I said, not really sure what to do now.

And thank you for all the help so far!

// Function that moves a button named google down on first click of

// button and back up again on the second click of button

function move()

{

fld = this.getField("google");

var rect = fld.rect;

//calculating the new position

rect[0];

rect[1];

rect[2];

rect[3];

if(rect[1] == 648){ //if equals original position

rect[1] = 648 - 70; //move to new position

}else{ //if doesn't equal original position

rect[1] = 648; //move to original position

}

Use this code:

function move() {
    var fld = this.getField("google");
    var rect1 = [0, 0, 0, 0]; // fill in with actual values
    var rect2 = [1, 1, 1, 1]; // fill in with actual values
    var currentRect = fld.rect;
    if (currentRect[0] == rect1[0]) {      //if equals original position
        fld.rect = rect2;      //move to new position
    } else {                    //if doesn't equal original position
        fld.rect = rect1;          //move to original position
    }
}

Bernd Alheit · Answer

This is Javascript for web browsers, not PDF files.

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