How to LINK two or more Text Field

Thanks for everything Jay...

Stevan,

You can find some here:

http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=example_acrobat_javascripts

Also by searching the web or this forum

Not a problem Jay... I already tested the first two I was given and they did not work. Perhaps I need to get the version 8 or 9. By the way, where does one go to get some of these scripts because I don't remember running into them anywhere in the help files?

Stevan,

I have Acrobat 8 and 9, so I'm sorry, but I can't test the script in version 7.

I will give that a try but all suggestions have not worked and I use Acrobat 7. Thanks for your time Jay...

Stevan,

It's almost laughable that I should give instructions since I know very little about JavaScript, but here goes . . .

Be sure to follow George's instruction precisely. Make three text fields, which I'll call Text1, Text2, and Text 3.

1) For the first text field, in the Options tab, remove Multi-line and remove Scroll long text. In the Format tab, in Custom Keystroke Script, click the Edit button, and enter the following:

var t1=this.getField ("Text1");
if (event.fieldFull)
{
getField("Text2").setFocus();
}

2) For the second text field, in the Options tab, remove Multi-line and remove Scroll long text. In the Format tab, in Custom Keystroke Script, click the Edit button, and enter the following:

var t2=this.getField ("Text2");
if (event.fieldFull)
{
getField("Text3").setFocus();
}

Click the Hand tool and start entering text in the first text field. When you run out of space in the first text field it should flow to the second text field and then to the third.

As noted in my previous message of October 7, 8:05, there are some very severe limitations to this technique which I've not been able to overcome. I was hoping that George might have a suggestion to offer about the limitations, but since we haven't heard from him, maybe there are no workarounds for the limitations.

Hi Jay..I tried using your code and it did not work for me. When I came to the end of the text box, the text did not go into the second text field. My other question would be, hwo do you make the text flow from one text box into another if you have many text boxes??

I use Adobe Acrobat 7 Thanks for any help you can offer! George's suggestion did not work for me either.

George,

One anomaly I noticed is that if both fields have text and I click in the first field to add text, the new text gets added to the second field -- not where I'm typing. If I select text in the middle of the text in the first field (instead of just clicking an insertion point) and start typing, the selected text is replaced and when I run out of space in the first field the text is added to the second field, but only after skipping over the last part of the text in the first field. In other words, the text is out of order. What is the correct technique to use when adding text?