Events not working

[Former Community Member]

Hello everyone.



I'm completely new to Adobe so forgive the ignorance. I do have a fair bit of coding experience though.



My problem is this:



I'm just trying to get started with Designer. I have a button who's caption I'm trying to change when clicked.



The line of Code is this:

Button1.caption.value.#text.value = "test"



or, in JS:

this.resolveNode("caption.value.#text").value = "test"



When I stick this bit of code in the 'initialize' Event, it works.



However when I try the code in another event (mouseDown, change, click) it has no effect whatsoever.



What am I doing wrong here????



I know there's something ridiculous I'm overlooking.



Thanks everyone!

[Former Community Member]

Make sure you save your PDF as a dynamic PDF. If you save it as static it will not be able to change the caption at runtime, only before the PDF has been rendered (ie: in an initialize event).



Chris

Adobe Enterprise Developer Support

[Former Community Member]

Hi all,



I have faced similar situation like Steve did.

In my case I tried to change caption of a Textfield when another Drop-down List is changed. JS is written in "exit" event of the Drop-down List.

I saved this file as a "xdp" file. Which is "xdp" file a dynamic PDF or a static PDF? In xdp file, is it not possible to change the caption at runtime?



Thanks,

Akira