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FormCalc for adding 2 varibles together and posting result.

2008-01-29 06:22:24

dk3dknight

Registered: Jan 22 2008

Posts: 136

Answered

Question.

What would the formcalc be for adding in example var3 = var2 +var1?

I would want var3 to be lets say a text box, and var 2 and 1 will also be a text box.

Im guessing you would not be using a if statement.

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows

2008-01-29 06:57:42

gkaiseril

Registered: Feb 23 2006

Posts: 4308

First, look at the documentation under the "Help" menu bar option. There is a "Scripting Reference" otpion, please look at this material. Then look at the samples provided with Acrobat or create forms from some of the standard templates and look at the fields especially their properites and scripts.

The formula in FormCalc is:

var2 + var3

But the fields have to be numeric.

George Kaiser

2008-01-29 07:15:55

dk3dknight

Registered: Jan 22 2008

Posts: 136

Amazing I feel dumb now thank you,
I had read the scripting references and
from the tutorials had already figured out
to do something like if blah = blah then blah
else blah...

but calculation had escaped me.

Hitting show calculate Var1+Var2 was the ticket,
I thought it would have been something extremely
complicated.

Thank You again.