Adding a digital signature to a form

Hi all,
I'm new adobe designer and have been tasked with creating an on-line registration form. So far I have been able to add all the fields and such for users to enter their information.
I have read through the forums and found out how to add little bits of javascript and stuff to the forms too.
At the moment I have a four page form with stacks of questions.
There is a question I have on there that is a check box with the usual "I accept the terms, blah, blah" on it and I need that field to act as a digital signature, or if not that, apply a signature to the form when the submit button is hit.
At the moment I have regular button as the submit button as I needed to be able to change the body and subject of the email at run-time and could only get it to work through javascript at run-time.
If anyone knows how to get this to work, I'd appreciate the help as I have no idea what I'm doing!
Cheers,
Dave

Hi,
It depends on where you placed the script, probably best place is the exit event.
if (this.rawValue != null || this.rawValue != "")
this.access = "readOnly";
else
this.access = "open";
This will only lock the field that the script is inside.
You should check out Paul's example LockAllFields, which contains a function in a script object. While Paul calls this from a click event in a button, you could call it fromthe exit event of the particular text field.
Re: Saving Fillable Form as non-fillable PDF
Hope that helps,
Niall
Assure Dynamics

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Moderator message: this is the wrong forum, please have a look in the forum for "SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe".
Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Oct 21, 2011 1:56 PM

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