Indesign Buttons and Forms

With all the forums mixed together it was not clear that you indeed meant C++ plug-in.

So you have somehow created and got a hold on a kTextFieldItemBoss. Following thru IID_IHIERARCHY children you get to the kSplineItemBoss, then kMultiColumnItemBoss which has a IID_IMULTICOLUMNTEXTFRAME leading to the kTextStoryBoss.

There you'd access text like with any text story.

Hi Madhuri1,

sorry. As I already said, I cannot give advice on SDK programming.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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The title of your question also mentions buttons…

With buttons it's still a bit different. The state of a button could simply contain nearly "everything". A text frame, a graphic frame, a group of things etc.pp. So in case of a button you have to go through its state objects followed by a group object that contains everything in that state.

myButton.states[0].groups[0].allPageItems;
// Loop that array to find a text frame or a text paths
// to get the text that is contained by the first state.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

FWIW: If that typed in text is working as default with an exported interactive PDF is a different question.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Madhri1,

you tagged your question with the "SDK" label.

Sorry, but I can only tell how this is working in the scripting DOM with ExtendScript.

The object textBox has no texts or parentStory property.

So you cannot get directly to your typed text.

Instead, textBox has properties like pageItem or even textFrame.

So get your text this way:

myTextBox.textFrames[0].texts[0]

 Or this way:

myTextBox.pageItems[0].getElements()[0].texts[0]

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

I have no clue what you are saying. 

Please elaborate and show screenshots if you want us to help you.

jonathan

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