adding a function to all fields in a document (blur and focus)

Question

Hi,I've got a simple function that I have added to the 'DocumentJavascripts' in Acrobat in order to change the style of a field.  I know that for a single field, I can use the 'blur' and 'focus' triggers to run it. But seeing as I need to apply this function to most of the fields in the PDF, is there an easier way of doing this?   Is there a document wide event listener that would work?  I don't think this is important, but just in case the function I'm using is: function Blurfield(){    V=this.getField(event.targetName);     if (V.value.length==0)    {        V.borderStyle = border.s;        V.fillColor = color.transparent;        V.strokeColor = color.transparent;    }}Many Thanks,Herb

try67 · Accepted Answer

There's no "global event listener", but you can use a simple script to do it. I assume you want to apply it to text fields, right?

If so, you can use this code from the JS Console to do it:

for (var i=0; i<this.numFields; i++) {
    var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i));
    if (f==null) continue;
    if (f.type=="text") {
        f.setAction("OnBlur", "Blurfield();");
    }
}

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