You can't invent your own events. You can only use those specified in the PDF specs and implemented in PDFBox...
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Madhujith Kariyapperuma < [email protected]> wrote: > Actually, what I want to point out is that I want to perform event > handling in PDF form fields just like we do in GUI form. > > Then what I want to know is that how I perform it using java and PDFBox? > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Gilad Denneboom > <[email protected]> wrote: > > What does Java Swing has to do with PDF files? The two technologies are > > very different. > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Madhujith Kariyapperuma < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Thank you very much for your attention, > >> > >> But in Java Swing there are methods like "actionPerformed" that fires > >> when the action is performed according to the event. But I couldn't > >> find such methods in PDFBox to perform that kind of tasks. Could you > >> please give me any directions for that? > >> > >> Thank you! > >> > >> Regards, > >> Madhujith Kariyapperuma > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Gilad Denneboom > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > There's a built-in Keystroke event for fields that you can use... It's > >> not > >> > something specific to PDFBox, it's a feature of the PDF specification, > >> but > >> > you can certainly apply it using PDFBox. > >> > > >> > > >> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Madhujith Kariyapperuma < > >> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hi all, > >> >> > >> >> I want to check the feasibility of handling events in a editable > >> >> existing PDF file using Apache PDFBox. In that case, I need to handle > >> >> keyboard events (specially "press enter key" event). For an example, > >> >> if user type his name in a text field and press enter key in key > >> >> board, this event should be tracked. > >> >> > >> >> Are there any methods to support this task in PDFbox API?. If yes, is > >> >> there any example resource (code) for that task? > >> >> > >> >> Thank you! > >> >> > >> >> Regards, > >> >> Madhujith Kariyapperuma > >> >> University of Colombo > >> >> > >> >
