Add combo box via Javascript and Action Wizard

With a few modifications to the example script and using the option to use the parameters for the "addField" method:

var inch = 72; // points per inch
var page = 0; // zero based page for field
// options for selection by the field
var aOptions = new Array("China", "U.S.A.", "Enter Country Name");

// Position a rectangle (.5 inch, .5 inch)
var aRect = this.getPageBox( {page: page} );
aRect[0] += .5 * inch;// from upper left hand corner of page.
aRect[2] = aRect[0] + 1.5 * inch;// Make it 1.5 inch wide
aRect[1] -= .5 * inch;
aRect[3] = aRect[1] - 24;// and 24 points high

// Now construct a combo box
var f = this.addField({cName: "Country", cFieldType: "combobox", nPageNum: page, oCoords: aRect})
// complete the properties of the field
f.delay = true; // turn off display refresh
f.borderStyle = border.s; // border style
f.strokeColor = color.black; // border color - black
f.lineWidth = 2; // border width
f.fillColor = color.transparent; // background color - clear
f.setItems(aOptions); // set options for selection
f.editable = true; // allow edit of options
f.textSize = 10; // 10 point size for text
f.textColor = color.black // text color - black
f.textFont = font.Times; // font name
f.delay = false; // restore display refresh

Thank you so much for your help!

I've modified the script for my document, but while the box your script creates will print the content of the combo box, mine will not. :-/

Also, I'd like the text to be Arial Bold if I can -- I tried changing the font to BoldArial and ArialBold without success), and to set a color value for the text to match what is in our document. The custom color would be defined as:

color.mynavy = new Array("RGB", 0, 0, 128);

Thx,
Carla

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var inch = 72; // points per inch
var page = 0; // zero based page for field
// options for selection by the field
var aOptions = new Array("China", "U.S.A.", "Enter Country Name Here");


// Position a rectangle (.5 inch, .5 inch)
var aRect = this.getPageBox( {page: page} );
aRect[0] += 1.875 * inch;// from upper left of page.
aRect[2] = aRect[0] + 1.25 * inch;// Make it 1.5 inch wide
aRect[1] -= 10.59 * inch;//from top
aRect[3] = aRect[1] - 18;// and 24 points high

// Now construct a combo box
var f = this.addField({cName: "Printed_In", cFieldType: "combobox", nPageNum: page, oCoords: aRect})

// complete the properties of the field
f.delay = true; // turn off display refresh
f.borderStyle = border.s; // border style
f.strokeColor = color.red; // border color - red
f.lineWidth = .25; // border width
f.fillColor = color.transparent; // background color - clear
f.setItems(aOptions); // set options for selection
f.editable = true; // allow edit of options
f.textSize = 7; // 7 point size for text
f.textColor = black// text color - black
f.textFont = font.Arial; // font name
f.display = display.visible
f.delay = false; // restore display refresh

You can set the display property to "display.noPrint"

On my system,Windows XP with Acrobat 8 Pro, using the following code in the JavaScirpt console for field "Text1":

this.getField("Text1").textFont;

I get the response;

Arial,Bold

So I can use the following code to set the font to the arbitrary font:

this.getField("Text1").textFont = "Arial,Bold";

You can change the above script for your needs.

George - please forgive my ignorance, but I'm not a programmer. I've tried several ways to get feedback on this in the console, and all I'm getting is a return result of "undefined."

I did find that the reason that my field wasn't printing was the Arial definition - there must be a variation on the name that is appropriate. When it was changed back to plain Times, it worked.

"undefined" is just a general term that means the script completed without returning any value.