Creating Button to activate other buttons

Question

Hello everyone, long time reader of these forums. This is my first post. Thank you to everyone that has posted questions, and these who have helped out so much.

I am currently working on an interactive 3D PDF. This allows users to turn on and off various components in the CAD model. I currently have buttons that turn off a whole series of parts, my goal is create an additional button that will activate all of the buttons at once. I posted a reference picture of how my buttons are layed out. Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you

Allen

Thom Parker · Answer

How you do this depends on what you mean by "Active".

There are two ways to make a form field inactive.

1. Hide the button:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Hiding-and-Showing-Form-Fields.cfm

2. Set the button to readOnly. This method can be confusing to users because there is no automatic visual indication that the button is inactive, such as graying it out. But here's an article that explains how to create this effect:

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/js_disabling_fields/

Or by "Activate", do you mean running the code already in the buttons from another button? There isn't a built-in method for doing this in the Acrobat scripting model. But something you could do is make the code performed by the other buttons a set of document level funtions. The "Activate All" button would then just call theses functions.

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