> I'm still trying to develop a plug in that will keep the 'Find Next' > dialog open in a PDF unless the user closes it. > I have very little experience working with Acrobat and am only > proficient in visual basic programming. > I've been investing my time into learning C (which appears to be the > only way to write a plug in).
Or C++, which is probably more work. > I've probably invested about 15 hours into learning it and feel as if > I'm no farther along in developing a plug in. Perhaps you have an over-ambitious schedule. I knew C well, but set aside a month for learning to write plug-ins. C is a complex language, and your time to learn it will depend on how much you are familiar with other languages and programming concepts. If you have programmed only by copying and pasting fragments, there is much to learn. If you have written substantial programs in, say, Pascal, then you should not have much trouble mapping concepts. There is also, before you can use the SDK for this purpose, the question of displaying the dialog. Bear in mind you can't actually change the behaviour of Find, so you have to recreate the whole function. Interacting with Windows to create dialogs is probably a more complex area to learn than C itself. > Would I be better off familiarizing myself with the SDK toolkit? You can pursue that in parallel. Or give up - have you seen what Acrobat 6 has done to the Find function? Aandi
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