popup calendar options?

Hi rwilki,

I don't know of any free AcroForm calendar controls but are you aware that LiveCycle Designer includes this as a feature for it's flavor of PDF forms? Since you indicate you own Acrobat Pro 7 you have that program since it comes with every Acrobat purchase.

Other than that, you can of course create your own date picker for AcroForms using JavaScript. Since my company's web site www.pdfscripting.com is one of the sites that offers this tool for AcroForms, I can tell you it took a scripting Pro many hours of development/coding time to develop.

Oops- my mistake. I see now that you are on Mac and LiveCycle Designer is Windows only. So that option is not available for you, sorry!

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

Hi Dimitri,

Thanks for your comment. LiveCycle got me into this problem in the first place when a customer sent me a livecycle generated pdf that they wanted some functionality added to it and of course, I had to recreate it from scratch since there's no sharing from LiveCycle > Acrobat.I have no doubt that it took a ton of development time building the apps on www.pdfscripting.com. Your site looks like it has a wealth of knowledge. Will I need to purchase the premium or pro package to get the popup calendar app?

Thanks again,
Bob

The 900+ lines of code has been posted on the Planet PDF. Login in the old format and search for 'gkaiseril calendar' you should be able to find something.

Hi rwilki,

I hadn't realized gkaiseril had posted code for a free calendar control at planetpdf. If that works for you then you're set, and you sure can't beat free for 900 lines of code! I haven't tried it yet, but gkaiseril is a scripting Pro so I'd bet it's a cool one.

To answer your question on membership- Yes, a Premium membership is required for all the download scripted PDFs and automation tools.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

Hi again,

I sure forgot a lot about the history of the calendar control! OK- here's some background I got reminded of by looking over the documentation on the calendar control we have at pdfscripting.com and searching around at planetpdf. A long time ago (I think around 2002) a guy named Jens Thomsen of Trisect Development in Denmark posted free code for a calendar control in AcroForms. This code was then added to and improved over the years. We got an improved, faster version from another programmer (Dave Conorozzo of FormRouter) and added more functionality to it and wrote up instructions on how to use it in an AcroForm.

You can find a couple different sources for versions of this control at planetpdf. Some were a bit clunky, slow, or did not handle things like leap years. Sorry for mispeaking on that point- if you head over the planetpdf and do the search as gkaiseril mentioned previously, you'll probably find different versions of free code for a calendar popup in addition to his, some going back quite a few years.

Good hunting!

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

Thanks Dimitri. I just used the script and it appears to be working perfectly in my acro form. Thanks...

Check out our FREE Advanced Acroform Toolset:
http://www.formrouter.com/toolsThe popup calendar is in there along with an easy to use "installer" for it.

Jim Healy
FormRouter, Inc.
Check out our FREE Advanced Acroform Toolset:
http://www.formrouter.com/tools

Wow. I haven't checked it yet but it looks fantastic! Wish you had this before!

Thanks Jim, it works like a champ =)

Now, I would like the same calendar pop up but in a serious colors. Red is a bit bright, but I guess I'll have to live with it :))

Thanks again!

Jess

You have the script and it is plain ASCI text and any simple text editor can be used to modify the code as needed. Just be careful not to change anything other than the color array.