Thanks for sharing Niall.You have saved me a whole lot of time. I hope I will be able to do the same for someone else in need and carry on your legacy.Regards,Shree

Wow, I was using some crude method for doing this. I only saw this update now. I am going to update my PDF with option 2.Out of curiosity, where do you get this knowledge from? do you work at Adobe? either that or my googling skill have deteriorated a lot.Thanks for all your help.Shreedhar

ahh, this works like a charm.I would never have figured this out by myself. The js_api_reference.pdf that is provided by Adobe has some incorrect information regarding setItems.Thanks a lot. Much appreciated.Shreeedhar

This question might seem silly, but for some reason the following code is not working for meddlNumbers.clearItems();ddlNumbers.setItems([["California", "CA"],["Massachusetts", "MA"],["Arizona", "AZ"]]);I execute this code in the click event handler of a button. For some reason the dropdown does not ...

Thanks Niall,That works. Also I am getting the text in the dropdown instead of the value assigned. But I can work around that somehow.Thanks again for pointing this out.Shreedhar

Hi,I have a dropdown which I am populating using javascript as per Brad's post here http://blogs.4point.com/brad.white/2010/03/populate-a-drop-down-with-a-web-service-in-a-pdf.html .I have hooked up the change event of this dropdown to show the new selection in a seperate text box as below//Applicat...

Got it working now. Great insight you have guys. Thanks Niall & Srini for you help. Appreciate it.Shreedhar

Ahh, I think this comes pretty close. Is this setting doneon my file in the Life Cycle designer, or all the clients who open my PDF should make this change?

Hi,I have a form with some radio buttons and textboxes. Depending on the selection of the radio button, I am setting the visibility (presence) of textboxes. It works fine and the textboxes get hidden or show as required. But when I save the form and re-open it, the radio button selection is saved an...