> Am 18.09.2018 um 18:54 schrieb Dagnon, William <william.dag...@wpsic.com>:
>
> Maruan and Tilman,
>
> Thanks for your responses:
>
> * I can't tell how PDButtonTest is supposed to help: there are no PDComboBox
> nor PDChoice controls in that class, and the only way any controls are
> changed is with ctrl.setValue("string") (or
> checkbox.check()) which, as my screenshot shows, did change the "V" (value)
> but does not display anything for combo boxes.
Ah - sorry - somehow I got that you are using Checkboxes. I'll take another look
>
> * Per Tilman, here is 'N' highlighted: imgur.com/a/M3XORNs
> This is different in a few ways from a selected, visible version:
> A) this has "/DeviceGray cs" at the top, a viewable one doesn't
> B) a viewable one, where I manually selected it, has "(Part ) Tj" and later a
> "(B) Tj" row, whereas this one only has one "(Part B) Tj" row...
>
> * I tried getting 2.0.11 to work locally for most of yesterday, but WebSphere
> refused to load fontbox 2.0.11 for some reason - even after extensive
> re-Mavening and rebuilding.
>
> * if it helps, I'm viewing in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 2018.11.20058
>
> * In comparing the file saved by PDFBox which does not display text for the
> combo boxes, versus one where I manually selected what I wanted in them
> (through Reader DC) and saved it, the most obvious difference is that the
> PDFBox file is missing the "I: (1)" and subrow "0:0". (or "0:1", etc.,
> depending on which index I selected).
> So.. maybe Reader knows the value from "V" but doesn't know what to display
> without the index being set?
>
>
> If I have time, I'll try debugging with attaching PDFBox's source, but I
> doubt that'll be today.
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 9:36 AM
> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
> Subject: Re: PDComboBox.setValue("selection text") displays nothing?
>
> Hi,
>
> please take a look at the unit test class PDButtonTest to see how to set the
> value dependent on the fields definition. You could also try to use
> checkbox.getOnValues() to get the list of valid values which are causing the
> individual checkboxes to be set.
>
> Please also note that - as Tillmann already pointed out - it's a good idea to
> use 2.0.11.
>
> Eg. you might be affected by ... which has been resolved in 2.0.5.,
> PDFBOX-3753 which has been resolved in 2.0.6 and others.
>
> BR
> Maruan
>
>
>> Maruan, please give this a try: imgur.com/a/o3SqsCn
>>
>>
>> ALSO wrt:
>> "Current version is 2.0.11, please retry with that one.
>>
>> Tilman"
>>
>> Thanks, cannot but will promote the idea localy: the version is out of my
>> control. Why, were fixed introduced for ComboBoxes?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de>
>> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 11:06 AM
>> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: PDComboBox.setValue("selection text") displays nothing?
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 10:31 AM
>>> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
>>> 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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