Could you do a screenshot of the fields definition in PDFDebugger with the
subtrees expanded and upload that?
BR
Maruan
> 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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> Subject: Re: PDComboBox.setValue("selection text") displays nothing?
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> Hi,
> > Am 17.09.2018 um 17:05 schrieb Dagnon, William <william.dag...@wpsic.com>:
> >
> > 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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