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How can i get bigger drop-down box?

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Hello,

Say, i hv a 'State'(Caption) drop-down on my_form. Bcz of space limitation, i hv gave the width of 1.4 cm, in such a way that accommodate Caption ONLY.

But, the values are so lenghy, like MA-Massachussettts, NH-New Hempshire, fine

So, now, when user opened my_form, when user dropped-down the list/pulled the drop-down the list, user is getting a BOX of width of 1.4 cm only!! but the entries are lenghty like 3 cm to 3.5 cm..........so, i want user get a bigger box so that user can see all the full lenghth of the list values, like MA-Massachussetts.

Pls. let me know how can i set the drop-down box size/width as per the values (here as 3 cm to 3.5 cm in this case, to see the complete Ma-Massaachussetts), NOT as per Caption?

Thank you

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Hi,

1) You can also set the tooltip at runtime, but this is probably not an efficient approach.

2) The script is fairly straight forward.

mouseEnter:

this.w = "2in";

mouseExit:

this.w = "1.375in";

3) When a field is set to readOnly, the tooltip does not show.

Hope that helps,

Niall

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Hi Srinivas,

Have a look at the second example here: https://acrobat.com/#d=jD3k1sL7PGcTo6CHHTiEOA

Script in the mouseEnter and mouseExit events.

Good luck,

Niall

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Thank you, but, i did not see the associated attached script for it (extensiding their sizes, tool tip), pls. let me know their scripts so that i willl use it as a snippet.

1) Regarding the TOOL TIP: Pls. note that, my drop-down entries/values are DYNAMIC, my_form does not know UNTIL runtime, i mean, i am not specifying the values/entries at my_form level, am passing them from back end/data source/SAP software

2) Resize: Pls. copy&paste the attached JavaScript for these resizing on MouseEnter & MouseExit events here pls.

3) I am not getting tool tip (either Caption or Name or Value) for 'readOnly"/Grey colored fields, pls. let me know is it a 'standard' Adode/Acrobat functionality by default? or can we do some thing to get the tool tip for ALL fields inclusing "readOnly"/Greyed colored fields?

Thank you

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Level 10

Hi,

1) You can also set the tooltip at runtime, but this is probably not an efficient approach.

2) The script is fairly straight forward.

mouseEnter:

this.w = "2in";

mouseExit:

this.w = "1.375in";

3) When a field is set to readOnly, the tooltip does not show.

Hope that helps,

Niall