Interactive Form Filler

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   Hi,

I need to make a PDF viewer where you can fill in forms and save either the PDF or FDF/XML of the form data.

I followed an example of how to render the PDF and it renders a bitmap of the PDF including gray boxes for the form fields. Now my problem is how to make these interactive so you can enter data to the fields. You need to use a timer and a drawline function to make a textcursor yourself or what is the approach?

Also I've been trying to use:

for i := 1 to QP.FormFieldCount do
  if QP.GetFormFieldTitle(i) = '1_Fornamn' then // 1_Fornamn a specific field
    Left := QP.GetFormFieldBound(i, 0);

However it seems that Left is 0 for lot of the form fields, how do i get the bounding box of a form field?

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conner Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 16 Oct 09 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote conner Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Interactive Form Filler Posted: 16 Oct 09 at 9:05AM
	Hi, I need to make a PDF viewer where you can fill in forms and save either the PDF or FDF/XML of the form data. I followed an example of how to render the PDF and it renders a bitmap of the PDF including gray boxes for the form fields. Now my problem is how to make these interactive so you can enter data to the fields. You need to use a timer and a drawline function to make a textcursor yourself or what is the approach? Also I've been trying to use: for i := 1 to QP.FormFieldCount do if QP.GetFormFieldTitle(i) = '1_Fornamn' then // 1_Fornamn a specific field Left := QP.GetFormFieldBound(i, 0); However it seems that Left is 0 for lot of the form fields, how do i get the bounding box of a form field?

conner Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 16 Oct 09 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote conner Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 Oct 09 at 9:46AM
	Ok, found out the QP.GetFormFieldBound(i, 0) problem, it seems the formfields are placed on page0 with 0,0,0,0 position and then used again with same name on page 1 where it has values.

dsola Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 Oct 05 Location: Croatia Status: Offline Points: 34	Post Options Post Reply Quote dsola Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 Nov 09 at 2:46PM
	Hi, maybe I'm wrong, but You have to read coordinates of each field from PDF form and create edit control on that coordinates. Bitmap is background and edit controls hides gray boxes. D.
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