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Java code to disable advancing with arrows on keyboard?

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2010-12-08 14:53:24
jdchevy
Registered: Dec 8 2010
Posts: 1

I'm designing an interactive PDF, and it's important that the navigation is controlled through the navigation buttons we've designed. I've figured out how to disable click advancing when in full screen mode (unless a button is clicked) but can't figure out how to disable the arrow keys on my keyboard. Any suggestions?
 
Thanks!
 
Joel

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Acrobat Pro 10.0, Macintosh
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2010-12-09 00:32:18
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Not possible with JavaScript.

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2010-12-09 12:10:25
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maxwyss
Registered: Jul 25 2006
Posts: 255
It may have side effects, but you could do this:

1. Create a document-wide variable (for example var moveOnOk = 0 ; ).

2. In the navigation buttons set that variable to 1.

3. In the pageClose event evaluate that variable; if it is greater than 0, allow moving on, if not, send the user back to the page he came from. That would look somewhat like this:

if (moveOnOk > =) {
moveOnOk = 0 ;
} else {
this.pageNum = // you may try this.pageNum
}


and that should do it.

I believe to remember having such a situation, and in order to absolutely make sure that the next page is not reached, we inserted a very small blank page between every document page.


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