I'm designing a pdf form in Acrobat; and I want to set up a text box that draws from a pre-set list of choices, the way a combo box does; but I don't want the form to actually display the drop-down list- I just want it to use the list as a source. What I would like is a setup where, if the person entering the data starts typing something into the text box that matches something on the list, the box will "suggest" the list item (the way Google does when you start typing in a search string and it anticipates where it thinks you're going with it), and give the user the opportunity to select the suggestion and populate the field with it; but if the user enters something that does not match anything on the list, the text box will allow the user to enter whatever they want (but it will NOT then add that entry to the items list, it will just store it in that one instance of the text field).
Example:
Suppose I have the following list list items underlying my text box:
Boston Fire Department
Boston College Library
Philadelphia Superdome
San Francisco Bridge Authority
Houston Chicken Costume Emporium
Kansas City Family Values Center.
If the user starts typing "Boston", I would like the box to "suggest" the first matching item on the list, which is "Boston Fire Department", and if the user selects it, then the field gets populated with "Boston Fire Department"; however as soon as the user types as far as "Boston C-", then the box changes the suggestion to "Boston College Library", and the user can then select that value to populate the box if they want to. But if the user is trying to type "Boston Copper Factory", then as soon as the typed string gets beyond anything that matches the underlying list, the box will stop making suggestions and just let the user enter whatever it is they want to enter into the box.
Does that make sense? Is this doable in Acrobat?
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