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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

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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