This is a technical article on the defineJS environment, which is defined in the insdljs package of the AcroTeX distribution. The article covers change in the package dated 2020/12/20.
December 28, 2020
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September 21, 2013
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Evaluating Equivalent Expressions
This article is about problems that questions that ask the student to simplify or factor of a mathematical expression. Without the aid of a computer algebra system, this is a tricky problem for exerquiz. Still, this article provides some ideas … Continue reading
August 27, 2013
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Setting maximum and minimum time limits for a quiz
In an earlier post (On Requiring minimal time for a Quiz) techniques for requiring the respondent to spend a minimal amount of time on a quiz. In this demonstration file, we add to this be limiting the amount of time … Continue reading
May 14, 2013
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On Requiring minimal time for a Quiz
A user recently asked whether there is a way to require the student to review an exerquiz quiz for a minimal amount of time. That is, the student is not allowed to press the ‘End Quiz’ button until a specified … Continue reading
May 8, 2012
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Countdown Maximum Length Input
This problem was posed to me by Dale S. He wanted to create a text field with a maximum character limit, but want to be able to countdown to the user the number of characters still available to enter into … Continue reading
July 13, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 1: The Basics
A long thread begins on the topic of processing Acrobat form fields. We discern two basic cases, external processing and internal processing, and discuss some of the basics. Download: pdfblog_12.pdf
July 12, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 2: Text Fields
This article covers the topic of getting and setting the values of a text field and a rich text field. It also catalogs the JavaScript properties and their user interface counterparts. Download: pdfblog_13.pdf
July 11, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 3: Button Fields, the Push button
The article discusses push buttons with an emphasis on icons appearances. Catalogs the JavaScript properties and their user interface counterparts. Download: pdfblog_14.pdf
July 11, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 4: Button Fields, the Check Box
This article continues the discussion on Acrobat forms with check boxes. Also included in this blog is a discussion of field naming conventions, and widgets. Techniques for changing properties of individual widgets are also covered. Download: pdfblog_15.pdf
July 9, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 6: Choice Fields, the List Box
A list box is a rectangular region what contains a scrollable list of several text items, one or more of which may be selected as the field value. A vertical scroll bar is available when the height of the list … Continue reading
July 7, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 8: Processing Collections of Fields
This discusses techniques of processing collections of form fields. These methods are illustrated for a short sample survey, server-side scripts are provided. Download: pdfblog_19.pdf
July 7, 2011
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\btnAnime: Animation using Form Field Buttons with AeB Pro
The article describes how to create simple animations using button appearances using AeB Pro. Download: btn_anime.pdf Source files: btn_anime.zip Related articles: \btnAnime: Animation using Form Field Buttons with AeB Pro ocgAnime: Animation using OCG (Layers) with AeB Pro Moving the … Continue reading