Highlighting Form Fields

[jps8834]

Hello, I am a developer using Delphi to view PDFs within our program, and I was wondering if you support the highlighting of Form Fields. From looking through the forums, I got the impression that you could, and the help file seems to imply this, but I can't figure out exactly how to test whether or not it works. I am testing with a PDF that I know has form fields, but when I tried to use the examples that came with the SDK, it gave an "unspecified error."

Anyway, I am stuck, and was wondering if you could help me.

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

You can try to use next code:

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var
  vDataIn,vDataOut:OleVariant;
begin
....
  vDataIn := 'HilightFormFields';
  CoPDFXCview1.DoVerb('', 'ExecuteCommand', vDataIn, vDataOut, 0);
....
end;

[jps8834]

Well... that seemed to not give an error, but it still doesn't seem to be highlighting the formfields.

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

That’s strange.. Can you give us PDF file on which form fields highlight is not working?

[jps8834]

Here you go.

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

As I can see, Viewer ActiveX with default settings, highlights form fields fine by using 'HilightFormFields' command. But in some cases highlighting of some fields (or all fields) may be disabled by user. This can be checked in Document Options Toolbar.
To enable highlighting of all form fields you can use 'HilightAllFormFields' command - this will highlight all fields, but notice that this command cannot hide highlighting.

but when I tried to use the examples that came with the SDK, it gave an "unspecified error."

What exactly example have you tried?

[jps8834]

I was trying to use the example from the "PDF-XChange Viewer SDK\Examples\DelphiExamples\PDFViewerActiveXTestDelphi" folder to see how it was supposed to be done.

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

That was just EOleException or something else? And what version of Delphi you are using?

[jps8834]

I actually found the issue. The code you gave me earlier was exactly right, I wasn't aware we weren't using the latest version of PDFX-Viewer. Once I upgraded it worked perfect.