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Example:how to use form reseting (reset form fields values to their default values) in PDF made with PDFDoc Scout library

How to use a form reseting action in PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_reset_form_action.zip (56 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

Screenshot of PDF document with button that resets form fields to their default values

 ' create PDFDoc object

 Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")

 ' initialize library

 PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"

 

 ' set output filename for PDF document

 PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "pdfdocscout_example_reset_form_action.pdf"

 ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application

 PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true



 ' starts PDF document generation

 PDFDoc.BeginDocument



  'Add new Reset Form Action

 Set ResetFormAction = PDFDoc.AddResetFormAction()

 

 ' Add button

 Set btnTest = PDFDoc.Page.AddButton ("btnDemo", 100, 150, 200, 110)

 btnTest.Caption = "Run Reset Form Action"

 ' Set button action

 btnTest.OnMouseDown = ResetFormAction



 ' Add controls

 Set testCheckbox = PDFDoc.Page.AddCheckbox("testCheckbox", 100, 200, 150, 210)

 testCheckbox.Caption = "testCheckbox"



 Set EditField = PDFDoc.Page.AddEdit ("testTextBox", 100, 220, 150, 230)

EditField.Text = "testTextBox"



 ' close pdf document generation

 PDFDoc.EndDocument



 ' disconnect from library

 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

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