PDFPAGE_CreateControl

Creates an edit control in a PDF document.

Syntax

LONG PDFPAGE_CreateControl_Edit (
BSTR editName,
LONG left,
LONG top,
LONG right,
LONG bottom
)

Parameters

editName

Name of the control

left

X coordinate of the left-top corner of the bounding rectangle.

top

Y coordinate of the left-top corner of the bounding rectangle.

right

X coordinate of the bottom-right corner of the bounding rectangle

bottom

Y coordinate of the bottom-right corner of the bounding rectangle

Return value

Index of the edit control

Remarks

This method creates an edit control with name editName on the current PDF page in an area bounded by the coordinates given.

The return value is an annotation/control identifier in document's annotations collection and can be used in AddControlToAction, CurrentAnnotationIndex.

Equivalent in new interface: IPDFDocument4::AddEditBox.

Example

Creating an Edit Box

Delphi

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{ PDF object is supposed to be created }
PDF.BeginDoc;
PDF.PDFPAGE_CreateControl_Edit('edt1', 10, 10, 110, 23);
PDF.PDFANNOTATION_Text := 'Text';
PDF.EndDoc;

C/C++

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// PDF object is supposed to be created
PDF->BeginDoc();
PDF->PDFPAGE_CreateControl_Edit("edt1", 10, 10, 110, 23);
PDF->PDFANNOTATION_Text = "Text";
PDF->EndDoc();

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// PDF object is supposed to be created
PDF.BeginDoc();
PDF.PDFPAGE_CreateControl_Edit("edt1", 10, 10, 110, 23);
PDF.PDFANNOTATION_Text = "Text";
PDF.EndDoc();

Visual Basic

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' PDF object is supposed to be created
PDF.BeginDoc
PDF.PDFPAGE_CreateControl_Edit "edt1", 10, 10, 110, 23
PDF.PDFANNOTATION_Text = "Text"
PDF.EndDoc

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