Dropdown list script

Absolutely this is something you can do with JavaScript, or even FormCalc, on a LiveCycle Form. This article witll help you get started.

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

Thom Parker
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Thank you for your reply. I have tried and tried to get this to work but I just do not know enough about this and found the above tutorial much more elaborate than what I was looking for. I was hoping to simply do something such as, in my drop down list have the selections "Yes or No", if yes is chosen, a message appears in a text box. This is my basic solution but ultimately what I would like to happen is when the selection is moused over, this text box would appear.

Is this a very complicated script or can it (even the first part of making a selection and a message appears) be written by an if statement?

Doing a mouse over popup of a list item is probably impossible. But writing something into a text field when an item is selected is simple.

Use something like this in the "Change" event for the drop down list

myTextField.rawValue = xfa.event.change;

Where "xfa.event.change" is the list item text. You could also do something like this

if(xfa.event.change == "Item1")
myTextField.rawValue = "This is item 1";
else if(xfa.event.change == "Item2")
myTextField.rawValue = "This is item 2";


Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/[/url]