Hi, I'm trying to create a custom history pop-up menu (using Acrobuttons thanks very much Thom!), so that a User can return to any page of any document he has previously opened in this Reader session.
To accomplish this I'm using pageClose scripts on all pages of all my documents.
The pageClose scripts pass documentName and documentPage data to a folder level function that manages the history pop-up.
My problem is that the pageClose script does not get triggered in the following circumstance...
-You have document A open at page 2.
-You then open document B
-Document B contains a link to page 2 of Document A. You click that link.
-Document A comes to the front, page 2 is displayed - But no pageClose script runs on Document B (similarly no pageOpen script runs on Document A)
I can see the logic of the page scripts running this way, but this won't do for my application.
So my question is 'How can I capture a 'page not active any longer' event?
The Javascrpt references seems to hint that this is possible (using the Page/Close event captured at a folder level?). The guides states for this event:
"This event happens whenever the page being viewed is no longer the current page; that is,
the user switched to a new page or closed the document"
Any ideas would be gratefully received.
Clive.
Instead you need something that polls Acrobat. Like a timer, or an enable script on a toolbar button. All you have to do is capture the current document path and page number. When these values change you add them to the list. Ta Da, done. Of course this only works for documents in the current session. All this data is lost when the user quits Acrobat. Saving the data is problematic. There are ways to do this but they are version dependant. In Acrobat 5 and maybe 6 you could use the globals object. But not in later versions.
Good Luck,
Thom Parker
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