by John Brinkman

Created

March 12, 2010

Last year I posted a sample form that was useful for debugging the internals of dynamic forms: Debug merge and layout.  In the mean time, I’ve discovered a couple bugs.  Time for a maintenance release.  The main changes are:

  • Does a better job finding the coordinates of objects — anything inside a subformSet, fields inside exclusion groups.
  • Reports the breakBefore and breakAfter properties correctly
  • General code cleanup and a bit of optimization

As I’ve mentioned before — this tool is useful not only as a way to debug your merge/layout, but also a good way to visualize what’s going on inside the the XFA processor.

Here’s the updated debugger form.

COMMENTS

  • By Maruan Sahyoun - 1:09 PM on March 24, 2010  

    Hi John,I’m asked on a regular basis if it’s possible to get an information where a text is truncated within a field if it is longer than the visual boundaries of the field, but within the limits of the field size. A visual hint is the black ‘+’ at the lower right hand corner of the field.Kind regardsMaruan

  • By John Brinkman - 2:51 PM on March 24, 2010  

    Maruan:Unfortunately, I don’t know of any way to use script properties to detect when field content has exceeded a fixed size.Of course, life is simpler if you use a growable field that expands to the size of the data.But I suspect you knew that already and have other reasons for using a fixed-size field.John

  • By Maruan Sahyoun - 1:31 AM on March 25, 2010  

    John:thank you for the information. At least it confirms what I already thought which is also very valuable.Thank you very much for your ongoing support.Maruan

  • By Eran Fox - 11:29 AM on April 19, 2010  

    Dear John,I’m not sure this is the right place to ask my question, but i need help on this:My problem is – when I submit a PDF Form to Email as XML file I get an XML file name with the pdf file name + the suffix _data (if the adobe reader is in English) or with the suffix _datos (if the adobe reader is in Spanish)How can I change that? Is there a way to control the XML File name? or to embed it?Thank you in advance,Eran

  • By John Brinkman - 3:01 PM on April 23, 2010  

    Eran:I’m not the expert in this particular area.As far as I know, there is no way to control the actual name of the file that gets attached.John

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