Assign value to a text field

hreith · Post by **hreith** » Wed Jan 04 2006

I am reading up a text file that contains the Name and Value of an editable text field on the PDF form. How do I find the name of the editable text field and set the value of it to something else?
Thanks!

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Thu Jan 05 2006

If you know the old valued of the field you can use the ReachText () method of IacDocument that returns the object reference if the text is found

Hope this helps

hreith · Post by **hreith** » Thu Jan 05 2006

what if I just know the name of the field I need to change?? there may or may not have been a value in it before.

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Fri Jan 06 2006

Hello,

If you know the name of the field it's easier, you just set it's "value" attribute.

hreith · Post by **hreith** » Mon Jan 09 2006

what function do I need to call in order to find ALL the editable fields on a form?

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Mon Jan 16 2006

Hello,

Below is a code that retreive all the objects in a PDF file, you can edit this code to retreive only Field objects.

Hope this helps.

private void RetrieveObjects_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
try
{
System.Collections.ArrayList listobj = new ArrayList(); // listobj is an array list of objects

System.IO.FileStream testfile = new System.IO.FileStream ("TestFile.pdf",FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read,FileShare.Read);

using ( IacDocument document = new IacDocument( null ) )
{
document.Open (testfile,"");

IacPage page1 = document.GetPage(1);

Amyuni.PDFCreator.IacAttribute attribute = page1.AttributeByName("Objects");
listobj = (System.Collections.ArrayList) attribute.Value;
Amyuni.PDFCreator.IacObject iacObj;

foreach ( object o in listobj )
{
iacObj = (Amyuni.PDFCreator.IacObject) o;

MessageBox.Show( "Name: " + iacObj.Name + " " + "Type: " +iacObj.AttributeByName("ObjectType").Value.ToString() );

}
}

}
catch(IacException acEx)
{
MessageBox.Show (acEx.ToString());
}
}