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When you set a field 'Read only', that field is no longer accessible to users... it behaves like part of the page's contents.
This is absolutely what a read-only field has to be.
So what do you do with a multi-line text field where the text can easily
exceed the borders of the field. You can no longer use the scroll bar.
Correct. Find other workarounds, such as using automatic font size. Note that fields with scrollbars may not be legally acceptable in any kind of digital workflow, because the user must sign what the user sees, and not what is somehow hidden below scrollbars.
Our nasty little workaround has been to not set the read-only flag, but to
eat all the key presses to give read-only-ish behavior without locking out
the scroll bars. Thiks workaround has caused several problems. "Set all
the fields to read only. Except the multi-line text fields... leave them
alone and shake a dead chicken at them instead, and incant the magic words."
Yuck.
Na, na, na, it is not thaaat bad. Also, you can keep track of the fields which require special treatment. Then change the options only for these fields. And even this "character eating keystroke function" is not such a big deal ... unless it gets bloated with a whole bunch of other stuff...
Can anyone think of an alternate workaround? We're building these fields in
Cos, so anything that's legal PDF is fair game.
See above.
In addition to that, you could work with overflow fields.
I've submitted this as a bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I'm not going to
hold my breath waiting for their next .X (or .0) release which may or may
not contain a fix, even if they acknowledge this as a bug (and they may
not).
As scrollable read-only fields are compromising the read-only aspect, this can not be considered to be a bug.
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss PRODOK Engineering Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
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