Where can I find documation that explains the property names and property
values for AcroFields.setFieldProperty()?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Steve Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "javier muguruza"
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Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:15 AM
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] how to set a form field to invisible


No need for that, see AcroFields.setFieldProperty().

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Steve Cole
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:48 PM
> To: javier muguruza
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] how to set a form field to invisible
>
> This is a sample of Java code that adds Javascript to a
> fillable PDF to
> change some fields to read only. Making them hidden would
> work the same way.
>
>       // Vector readOnlyFields contains the names of fields I
> want to be
> read only
>       boolean first = true;
>       StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
>       for (Enumeration e = readOnlyFields.elements();
> e.hasMoreElements(); ){
>         field = (String) e.nextElement();
>         field = field.toLowerCase();
>         if (first){
>           first = false;
>           sb.append("var array1 = [");
>         }else{
>           sb.append(",");
>         }
>         sb.append("'" + field + "'");
>       }
>       if (sb.length() > 0){
>         sb.append("];\n");
>         sb.append("for (i = 0; i < array1.length; i++){\n");
>         sb.append("  try{\n");
>         sb.append("    f = this.getField(array1[i]);\n");
>         sb.append("    if (f != null){\n");
>         sb.append("      f.readonly = true;\n");
>         sb.append("    }\n");
>         sb.append("  }catch(e){\n");
>         sb.append("    console.println(array1[i] + ' ' + e);\n");
>         sb.append("  }\n");
>         sb.append("}\n");
>         writer.addJavaScript(sb.toString());
>       }
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "javier muguruza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Steve Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] how to set a form field to invisible
>
>
> Thanks for the answer Steve,
>
> is there any example of using js this way?
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:35:05 -0500, Steve Cole
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If iText can't directly change the field property, you can
> always use
> iText
> > to add a Javascipt to the PDF that will change the field
> property hidden
> to
> > true.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "javier muguruza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:14 AM
> > Subject: [iText-questions] how to set a form field to invisible
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have started to use itext, some things are tried are easy with the
> > examples, others, I cannot see how I could achieve them, I
> cannot find
> > any doc about them.
> >
> > I have a form inside a pdf, and I want to set a field from that form
> > to be visible programatically. How can I do that? Once I
> find out this
> > I guess it will be easy to set it to rean only etc. But I
> dont see how
> > I could change the settings of a form field...is there any example
> > available somewhere?
> >
> > TIA
> > javier
> >
> >
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