Round up - Round down - Custom Calculation Script?

All of the above are methods of the [url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript]JavaScript[/url] [url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Math]Math object[/url].

[url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Math/ceil]Math.ceil(x)l[/url]
[url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Math/floor]Math.floor(x)[/url]
[url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Math/round]Math.round(x)[/url]

Thanks...but are you saying I should be able to paste these exact pieces of code in the "simplified field notation" or the "custom calculation script" boxes in Acrobat?

I've tried, but it doesn't seem to work.

Am I missing a portion of code that needs to accompany Math.cei (x) ?

Thanks

1. You can only use it in the custom calculation script.
2. It's not Math.cei it's Math.ceil
3. You need to replace x with the value you want to round up/down.

Thanks...but still not working for me.

Here's what I'm trying to do:

1. I have a text field box named A1 with the value 3.5
2. I have another text field box named A2 with the custom calculation script - Match.ceil (A1)
3. I want text field box named A2 to display the value of A1 rounded up to 4.

Does that make sense?

thanks

You can't access the value of A1 like that, you need to use the proper JavaScript method, which is:
this.getField("A1").value
So the total script is:
this.getField("A2").value=Math.ceil(this.getField("A1").value);

Thanks, try67...

Can tell me how to combine -- Math.ceil(x) -- with -- this.getField("A1")

I don't know how to write Javascript (yet) - I'm just trying to figure out what entire code string should look like - the actual code that I would paste into the custom calculation script box.

thanks

I've edited my previous message with the entire script you need.

Thanks for adding that....let me give it a try.

whoa......!!!
I think it's working!!!!
Yahoo.

thanks for your help.

Sorry about the dropped letter.

All of the blue underlined words are links to the JavaScript documentation so you can read the syntax, parameters, descriptions, and examples of each method and the version 1.5 JavaScript Reference manual.

You might want read Thom Parker's [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/form_calculations]How to do (not so simple) form calculations[/url] and look at some of the eSeminars on demand.

Hi - I am developing a PDF, and have been able to get by with "simplified field notations" performed for me up to this. Unfrotuantely, now I am stuck and I do not know where to turn for help. The Javscript world is forign to me. Thus, I apologize upfront for my ignorance.

This is what I am trying to accomplish. I wish to have field "Text34" equal a rank number 0, 1, 2, or 3 based upon the data (number) entered into field "Text15"

in other words, if "Text15" were greater than or equal to 3.75 then "Text34" would equal 3. Or, if "Text15" is less than or equal to 3.25 then "Text34" would equal 0.

I hope this makes sense? I would greatly appreciate any help anyone might be willing and able to offer.

Thanks, Rudy

Hi RudyPT,

You should start a new thread for this....

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

Done -thanks for the advice. :)