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Addition of dynamic rows in Acro-form and pushing down the fields below it to accomodate new rows

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2011-09-18 20:41:51
PDFchild
Registered: Oct 31 2010
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I am developing an Acro-form for myself and I have average knowledge of JS
 
I some how managed to code a button which adds new rows to a table. But I need to be able to move the table below it (again a set of fields), down to accommodate new rows.
 
This was easy in LC but I have to make an iPAD version which doesn't allow XFA.
 
Please help
 

Thank you.

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2011-09-18 20:43:46
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PDFchild
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PDFchild wrote:
I am developing an Acro-form for myself and I have average knowledge of JSI some how managed to code a button which adds new rows to a table. But I need to be able to move the table below it (again a set of fields), down to accommodate new rows.

This was easy in LC but I have to make an iPAD version which doesn't allow XFA.

Please help


Thank you.
So this action has to be linked with the ADD and REMOVE buttons I coded

thanks again

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2011-09-19 01:13:06
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try67
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It can't be done automatically. You need to create a function that changes the rect property (specifically, the y-axis location) of each field.

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2011-09-19 02:03:40
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PDFchild
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Hello try67,

Many thanks for the reply. I have never used rect before. Can you post a simple sample script. I will try to modify it to my needs.

Does this apply to X axis, please don't mind my newbie questions :)


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2011-09-19 02:31:09
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try67
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Here's the code to move a field called "Text1" 20 points down a page:
  1. var f = getField("Text1");
  2. var r = f.rect;
  3. r[1] -= 20;
  4. r[3] -= 20;
  5. f.rect = r;
If you change the X-axis values of the rect (values 0 and 2), the field will move to the left or the right.

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