Custom Dialog Box Question

Question

I have a custom dialog box that uses both radio buttons and edit_text fields.  What I am trying to do is make so that when a certain radio is selected the edit_text field will be filled with a suggested answer.  Is that possible and how could it be done?

Answer 1

Yes,  data is acquired from fields with the "dialog.store()" function and loaded with the "dialog.load()" function. Say that one radio button is named "Rad1" and the text box is named "Txt1".  Then this code represents the action script for the radio button, it places "New Text" into the the text field.
"Rad1":function(dialog){
    var rslt = dialog.store();
    if(rslt["Rad1"])
        dialog.load({"Txt1": "New Text"});
The Action script is a member of the dialog object.  You can see examples of how this can be build by downloading a trial version of AcroDialogs, which will build the correct JavaScript code for adding an action to a radio button.
http://www.windjack.com/products/acrodialogs.html
Thom Parker
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