> On 25 Jun 2015, at 11:28, Evan Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you John. > > I really don't care very much about these OnValue and OffValue, except that > there was a piece of bizzarre behavior that I used them to work around. > > On some pdf viewers (like Preview on the mac), if you did not SPECIFICALLY > set the value of the check box to the on vlaue string, the checkbox would > appear unchecked even though in pdf box introspection would show it as > being checked. > > So I had a hack workaround where, in addition to checking the checkbox I > also set the value to the OnValue.
This is fixed in 2.0, right? If not, let us know. > The universe of pdf viewers is vast and disturbingly inconsistent and buggy. Oh yes. > Thank you for your explanation. > > I found several places in the pdfbox 2.0 Javadoc that seem wrong. So it > needs attention. ACK. — John > > thank you. > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:16 PM, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> On 24 Jun 2015, at 13:20, Evan Williams <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I have an application written to use pdfbox 1.8.9 which is all about >>> filling forms. I have a form library and I fill in values in forms using >>> data I am handed. >>> >>> One of the things I also need to do is do introspection on the pdf >> document >>> to find out what fields are in it and make a template for filling the >> form >>> with data in my application. >>> >>> I am trying to get my application to work with pdfbox 2.0. Getting the >>> forms I have to fill was pretty straightforward. >>> >>> But I am having some difficulty with the introspection. >>> >>> For the templates I like to have an enumeration of the possible values of >>> the field if the field has such values. For example the names of the >>> possible values for a collection of radio buttons. >>> >>> I understood how to get those values for the 1.8.9 PDRadioCollection but >> I >>> have tried various things to get the same information for the 2.0 >>> PDRadioButton and I am not getting the information I need. the >> getOptions() >>> method on PDButton looked like exactly what I needed. But it always >> returns >>> null for me. >>> >>> As an aside I also used to get the on and off values of checkboxes with >>> getOnValue() and getOffValue(). These are in the Javadoc but appear to >> not >>> be in the actual API. I don't care very much about those, but they were >>> nice to have, and the Javadoc should be accurate as much as possible. >> >> The getOnValue() and getOffValue() APIs were removed because there’s no >> need for them. The on value of a checkbox is always “Yes” and the off value >> is always “Off”. These correspond to COSName.YES and COSName.OFF. >> >> I don’t know why these methods still show in the JavaDoc, as they were >> removed some time ago… the JavaDoc must be stale. >> >> — John >> >>> If anyone can help me with the RadioButton thing that would be a big >> help. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> -- >>> *Evan Williams* >>> Sr. Software Engineer >>> [email protected] >>> >>> *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>* >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > -- > *Evan Williams* > Sr. Software Engineer > [email protected] > > *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
