Populate Combobox selection to a text field.

You can easily get the list display value at the time the user makes the selection, using the "Change" event. The display value is in "xfa.event.newText".

At other times you have to do a little work to get the display value. Take a look at these two articles:

http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/js_list_combo_livecycle/
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/10/list_and_combo_in_lc/

Thom Parker
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Thom

I apologize for my lack of understanding, but I do not understand the syntax of Adobe javascripts enough to understand how to use the information you sent me.

There is a copy of the form I'm using at:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~jjohnso4/pos.pdf

Any help you can give is greatly appreciated.

Don Johnson

You should either set the "Export Value" for you option of instruction option to 0, zero. Without this value set the combo box value is the text string and not a number or test the value you are trying to apply to see if it is not a number is false by using the "isNaN()" method:

if(event.target.isBoxChecked(0) & isNaN(this.getField("AreaAMath").value) == false)
this.getField("HTA3").value = this.getField("AreaAMath").value;
else
this.getField("HTA3").value = 0;

I would make the "hours taken" field a calculation field and only fill in the hours when there is a number for the course and the "completed" check box is checked because a user could always go back and change an entry and using the check box action will not update for this change but a calculation will change.

I'm sorry, I assumed for some reason that you had a LiveCycle form. However, the articles I posted above are still valid.

During the Keystroke event both the display and export values are availible. The export value is in the "event.changeEx" property.

Place this in the keystroke event for the combobox

Don't use the calcualte event. The calculate is fired any time any field changes, and you've got a lot of fields. Could slow things down a lot.

Thom Parker
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The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
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