Why does innerDocWindowRect or any of the other window rects work?

[Raymond_Ford]

Of the many many many issues with scripting issues there are with writing code in Acrobat, this one I have not found a work around. How  are we supposed to find the inner document window rec when none of the window rec functions work?

[Joel Geraci]

This one is odd. You have to initialize the media object first. Then innerAppWindowRect and innerDocWindowRect start working. Add the line below to your code above where you need those properties.

var hack = this.media

[Raymond_Ford]

That did not help. still getting undefined

[Raymond_Ford]

var hack = this.media;

var myDocRect = this.innerDocWindowRect;

console.clear();

console.show();

console.println(myDocRect);

returns undefined

[Raymond_Ford]

I have discovered that the function works with javascript on a link that is created manually but NOT on a link created dynamically with javascript

[try67]

this.media itself also returns null, it seems...

[Raymond_Ford]

i have found out the both this.media and this.outerDocWindowRect will only work intermittently on links created manually.

[Joel Geraci]

It's not intermittent. It takes a few seconds to load the plugin that controls the media object so if you try to get the property immediately after initializing media, it's undefined.

Put this.media into a timerOut, maybe every tenth of a second or so. When it returns an object rather than undefined, you know it's loaded and then you can call the rects.

[Raymond_Ford]

that is not good at all!!!

very very poor design!!!!

So the user has to wait every time they click a button that requires the rect of the window to be known?

AND why in the hell is that not in the documentation?

[Test Screen Name]

That’s ugly, but you could put a load at document level. Still might not have finished by the time you need the functionality but delay likely to reduce.

[Joel Geraci · Accepted solution]

It's not poor design. That would imply that someone thought about it. In fact, it wasn't designed at all. It was an unintended consequence of delayed plugin loading which lets Acrobat load faster.

If you put the call to initialize the media object at the document level, it'll be ready by the time the user sees the button and well before they can get the mouse over to it to click it.

[Raymond_Ford]

the poor design is having to load a plug in to find out the rect of the document window.

Further more putting this.media in the document level script does NOT work