[Scribus] Javascript ON BLUR

[Prasad Mhatre]

Dear Maciej Hanski,

Thans a TON, it works great with 1.3.9 too.
Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks
Love and regards
Prasad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maciej Hanski" <ma_han2000 at yahoo.de>
To: <scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Javascript ON BLUR


> Prasad Mhatre napisa?(a):
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> Can someone let me know some good examples using javascript?
>>
>> I need to use some validation and conversion in my forms.
>> e.g. with thml form below:
>>    //----- To convert User Id to Upper Case.
>>    var UserId1;
>>    function ChangeCase(inputform)
>>     {
>>     UserId1 = inputform.user_id.value;
>>     inputform.user_id.value=UserId1.toUpperCase();
>>     return ;
>>     }
>>
>> and inside the form
>>              <input name="user_id" type = "text" 
>> OnBlur="ChangeCase(document.FrmLogin)" OnFocus="SelectText(this);" 
>> maxlength=20>
>>
>> Is this possible with Scribus?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Love and regards
>> Prasad
>>
>
> Hi Prasad and welcome to the Scribus mailing list,
>
> a good entry point is the "PDF Forms" category within the Scribus Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Category:PDF_Forms
>
> In particular, please check out this new article written by a nice guy
> from Australia (our new Wiki author who specializes on this area, 
> finally:):
>
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_enhance_your_PDF_forms_with_JavaScript
>
>
> Now to your specific questions (beware, I'm not a javascript or pdf
> forms guru, I just want to help, since there have been no other specific
> responces to your questions so far):
>
> 1. You won't be able to define many forms within a PDF documents, so  a
> function using inputform as an input parameter like
> ChangeCase(inputform) won't make any sense in this case.
>
> 2. But you may of course define document wide JavaScript functions  in
> Scribus, please go to Edit/JavaScript and add your functions there, e.g.
> something like:
>
> function RunOnLaunch()
> {
> app.alert('Welcome stranger');
> }
>
> You may  call these functions then while opening a pdf document
> (onlaunch), just go to "File/Save as PDF/Viewer/SpecialActions" and
> choose a Javascript function to be executed. You may as well call these
> functions from within your PDF form elements (text fields, buttons,
> etc.) -- see below.
>
> 3. To define what should happen e.g. onBlur, right click on an PDF form
> element, select "PDF options/Field properties/Action" tab, specify
> JavaScript as Action Type and choose e.g. "OnBlur" from the drop down
> list. The last thing to do is to click on "Edit..." and define your
> actions, either by writing your code within this very element or by
> calling one of your document wide functions. E.g. to change everything
> in your user_id field to upper case, you could do sth like this (just
> tested, works with Scribus 1.3.4):
>
> this.getField("user_id").value=this.getField("user_id").value.toUpperCase();
>
> 4. Important: PDF forms support has been broken in the last 2 stable
> Scribus releases (1.3.3.8 and 1.3.3.9) so please either use an older
> version (e.g. 1.3.3.7), or use the unstable branch 1.3.4 and accept the
> risks, or just wait until the issues in question are fixed.
>
> hth somehow
> Maciej
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