Actually, what I want to point out is that I want to perform event
handling in PDF form fields just like we do in GUI form.

Then what I want to know is that how I perform it using java and PDFBox?

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Gilad Denneboom
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What does Java Swing has to do with PDF files? The two technologies are
> very different.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Madhujith Kariyapperuma <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much for your attention,
>>
>> But in Java Swing there are methods like "actionPerformed" that fires
>> when the action is performed according to the event. But I couldn't
>> find such methods in PDFBox to perform that kind of tasks. Could you
>> please give me any directions for that?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Madhujith Kariyapperuma
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Gilad Denneboom
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > There's a built-in Keystroke event for fields that you can use... It's
>> not
>> > something specific to PDFBox, it's a feature of the PDF specification,
>> but
>> > you can certainly apply it using PDFBox.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Madhujith Kariyapperuma <
>> > [email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I want to check the feasibility of handling events in a editable
>> >> existing PDF file using Apache PDFBox. In that case, I need to handle
>> >> keyboard events (specially "press enter key" event). For an example,
>> >> if user type his name in a text field and press enter key in key
>> >> board, this event should be tracked.
>> >>
>> >> Are there any methods to support this task in PDFbox API?. If yes, is
>> >> there any example resource (code) for that task?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you!
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Madhujith Kariyapperuma
>> >> University of Colombo
>> >>
>>

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