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How can I can find the oCoords (field.rect) information for each check box in a check box group?
I'm only able to find the first set of coordinates. It seems that the function getNthFieldName is also seeing the entire checkbox group as 1 field. I tried to play around with exportValues and field names but I was never able to locate the .rect information for all exportValues.
I have to change hundreds of check box groups into radio buttons. I made a lot of progress thanks to this forum and older post but at the moment I can only create all the correct radio buttons at the location of the first checkbox group field. This means I have to manually drag and drop them to the correct field location.
Example:
In the example below you can see I can only find the location of 1 box even though there are 3
var fieldName = getField("Check Box Group");
fieldName.rect
279.6754150390625,313.5375061035156,297.6754150390625,295.5375061035156
fieldName.exportValues
1,2,3
Each instance of radio buttons or checkboxes in a group is called a widget, and each has it's own Widget name.
So if there are 3 buttons in a radio button group named "MyCheck". The individual Widgets are named "MyCheck.0", "MyCheck.1", and "MyCheck.2"
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You must access the widgets:
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Thank you Bernd but the site is Not found in the documentation. Widgets was the correct answer though.
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You can use the link when you remove the characters after .htm
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thank you, this worked and will be helpful in the future. I saw a lot of links in the forum I couldn't open before.
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Each instance of radio buttons or checkboxes in a group is called a widget, and each has it's own Widget name.
So if there are 3 buttons in a radio button group named "MyCheck". The individual Widgets are named "MyCheck.0", "MyCheck.1", and "MyCheck.2"
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wow, I should have asked this days ago. I just tried and it worked. This will save me countless hours of rearranging buttons on pdf forms.
Thank you!