Thanks for the response:
PDFBox 2.0.4
Please look right above your questions to see the 3 ways I've used to set the
values, though since I'm only ever setting a single value, they always come
down to:
ctrl.setValue(String); // the only operation on any control on the PDF
While I can create a PDF, I doubt I can put it anywhere public - and asking the
lawyers about it would take a while.
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From: Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 10:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PDComboBox.setValue("selection text") displays nothing?
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Hi,
> Am 17.09.2018 um 17:05 schrieb Dagnon, William <[email protected]>:
>
> Hello again all,
>
> I'm trying to fill out someone else's PDF programmatically, and while the
> text values work fine as before, the controls with Opts never display their
> values after I've set them. In the saved PDF, there is no text at the
> ComboBox's location, but using PDFDebugger the annotation and Opts are still
> there. Just not visible...? "V" is the correct value as set.
>
> The control looks fine when I look at the original, and I can select what I
> want from the box manually through an Adobe GUI.
>
> Comparing the original vs PDFBox saved files, each of the 4 CombBox controls
> have exactly these differences:
>
> 1. V, because I set it
> 2. "P": first # in [] goes from 61 to 312, plus lower details differ
> 3. There is a new "I: (1)" entry for the annotation
>
> Text controls:
>
> 1. Have a "V" (didn't in the original - no defaults) 2. Have the
> same change to "P"
> 3. Have the same "AP" as before, or a new "AP" if one didn't exist.
>
> All of the ComboBoxes have the same font("DA: /Helv 12 Tf g"), but the
> couple text controls with the same font display fine.
>
> I HAVE TRIED:
> A) Originally I'd just control.setValue("foobar") for the Opt controls just
> like the text controls, but that gave no results.
>
> B) The only code example Google returns is a stackoverflow where they have a
> font problem, but I tried control.setValue(opts.get(index)) - with no further
> luck.
>
> C) I've also looked at the opts themselves and they do exist - though as
> COSString objects. But they have exactly the same text, and I'm able to
> search through them for equal strings in order to determine the index.
which version of PDFBox are you using? How do you set the value? Would you have
a sample PDF to be able to give you some specific code (please upload to a
shared location)?
BR
Maruan
>
>
> How ARE PDComboBox controls supposed to work? Or am I using the wrong
> control altogether?
>
> Thanks...
>
>
> P.S. I am now seeing a DEBUG log: "ScratchFileBuffer:516 - ScratchFileBuffer
> not closed!" which I don't remember from before...
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