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Benedikt5FA4
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June 25, 2021
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changing colors of a textfield through clicking a button

  • June 25, 2021
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I want to change the value, the  color and the fillcolor  of a textfield after clicking a button.

Changing value works fine, but changing colors not. I tried several forms, must be a general problem, that i do not see..


var summe = 0;

var feld1 = this.getField("firstvalue");
var feld2 = this.getField("secondvalue");
var ergebnis = this.getField("sumofvalues")

summe = feld1.value + feld2.value;
ergebnis.value = summe ;
ergebnis.textcolor =color.red;
ergebnis.fillcolor =color.blue;

any help appreciated

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    Correct answer Benedikt5FA4

    Disable the field highlighting.


    I tried this:

    app.runtimeHighlight = false;

    it works!

    thank you all so much for your help

    -ben from the now warm Eifelmountains in Germany

    2 replies

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 25, 2021

    Replace textcolor with textColor and fillcolor with fillColor...

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      Benedikt5FA4Author
      Inspiring
      June 25, 2021

      great!  textColor now works fine! But the background of field remains white, when I set fillColor = color.blue.

      Any idea?

      Nesa Nurani
      Community Expert
      Nesa NuraniCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 25, 2021

      Where do you use script?

      LinSims
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      LinSimsCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 25, 2021

      Please let us know which program you are having problems with. Someone will be along to move this post to the appropriate product forum, where you are more likely to get an answer to your question.

      The Using the Community forum is for help in using the Adobe Support Community forums, not for help with specific programs. Product questions should be posted in the associated product community.

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      Benedikt5FA4Author
      Inspiring
      June 25, 2021

      Sorry for not being specific. I am using Adobe Acrobat ProDC and I have to get some actions into a pdf-file using JAVAScript. One action is, that , when clicking a button, a value in a textfield has to be calculated and the color has to be changed. I tried to code it in the way described. Assigning the new value to the field works, but assigning new colors does not work. I checked the api, but did not find a solution.

      All the best

      Ben

       

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