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2007-04-30 16:40:56
SGAshamir
Registered: Apr 30 2007
Posts: 2

How can I link two or more text field boxes together so that text that of there is too much text typed in the first box it will overflow into others?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.9, Macintosh
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2007-05-03 22:45:03
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Depends on the forms technology you are using. Was this form created in LiveCycle Designer or Acrobat? Assuming it was Acrobat, the "Keystroke" event object has a "fieldFull" property. You write a script that checks this property and sets the keyboard focus to the next field when it is true.

The technique is pretty much the same in LiveCycle, except that the field has a "full" event thats called when the field is full.

Thom Parker
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2008-03-14 16:51:00
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jenniwh
Registered: Mar 14 2008
Posts: 1
I have only been using acrobat a few weeks and am just starting to learn how to do things 'basic'... is there a tutorial you can direct me to so that I can do what you state.... or can you tell me exactly how to do it... ?
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2008-03-14 17:38:24
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
See the e-Seminars on the home page of this site for Acrobat forms and the signup for the upcoming LiveCycle Designer.

George Kaiser

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2008-12-09 09:28:14
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BeginnerX
Registered: Dec 8 2008
Posts: 9
Hi thomp,

I have the same issue.
I am using LC designer, I know that there is a "full" event for a field.

But instead of putting the codes there, what is the Javascript code that detect such "full" event of a textfield? As I would like to render the form by calling some script which will split the text into 2 other text fields if overflow.
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