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Can I use a Radio Button to move the cursor to another field

Steve Cairns
Registered: Jan 16 2010
Posts: 11

I have several Yes or No questions using radio buttons. For some of the questions if a user checks the Yes button, I would like to cursor to automatically move to a particular text field. Can this be done with a radio button ?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.2, Windows
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
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Yes. You will need to write a script that checks the value and then uses the setFocus method to "jump" to the next field.

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Steve Cairns
Registered: Jan 16 2010
Posts: 11
When you say write a script, do you mean Javascript ? I have Acrobat Standard and there is no help topics for writing scripts or the term setFocus.

Where would I find information on how to do this ? Thanks in advance.
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You can start here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php

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