ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Add show hide action to pdf with pdf sdk

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How to add show hide action to pdf with pdf sdk in C# using ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to code in C# to add show hide action to pdf with pdf sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

This sample source code below will display you how to add show hide action to pdf with pdf sdk in C#. What is ByteScout PDF Suite? It is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript. It can help you to add show hide action to pdf with pdf sdk in your C# application.

The following code snippet for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly add show hide action to pdf with pdf sdk in your C# application. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace ShowHideWidget
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to show/hide a widget in document.
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Create new document
            Document pdfDocument = new Document();
            pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo";
            pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            // Add page
            Page page = new Page(PaperFormat.A4);
            pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page);

            // Create widget that will be shown/hidden
            EditBox editBox = new EditBox(20, 20, 100, 25, "editBox1");
            editBox.Text = "editBox1";
            page.Annotations.Add(editBox);
            
            // Create button that will show the widget
            PushButton buttonShow = new PushButton(20, 80, 50, 25, "buttonShow");
            buttonShow.Caption = "Show";
            page.Annotations.Add(buttonShow);
            // Add Show action
            HideAction showAction = new HideAction(false);
            showAction.Fields.Add(editBox);
            buttonShow.OnActivated = showAction;

            // Create button that will hide the widget
            PushButton buttonHide = new PushButton(100, 80, 50, 25, "buttonHide");
            buttonHide.Caption = "Hide";
            page.Annotations.Add(buttonHide);
            // Add Hide action
            HideAction hideAction = new HideAction(true);
            hideAction.Fields.Add(editBox);
            buttonHide.OnActivated = hideAction;

            // Save document to file
            pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf");

            // Cleanup 
            pdfDocument.Dispose();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}