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finding each of oCoords in a check box group

Community Beginner ,
Apr 05, 2020 Apr 05, 2020

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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

 

 

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Community Expert , Apr 05, 2020 Apr 05, 2020

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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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"

  

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting
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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!

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