Digital Signatures from VB

Question

Hello,
I am trying to digitally sign a bunch of pdfs from LotusScript (it is VB6-like). Till now I am able to insert a signature field in a document but not sign that field. My problem is I could not find a way to construct the required SignatureInfo object for the signatureSign function.
Until now I tried to:
- pass {password: "xxxx" reason: "No reason", contactInfo: "[email protected]"}
This would result in a "Wrong argument type" error
- create a custom type oInfo with members password,reason and so on, then dimming and populating a variable of that type and passing it to the signatureSign. Would return me a Type mismatch error.
- calling the signatureInfo method of an empty signature field thus obtaining a "valid" SignatureInfo object, but when I try to assaing some values to a property I get "PASSWORD is not an instance member" error. This happens with reason, name or any other property
- calling the signatureInfo method of an already signed field. I could read the name or reason properties, but trying to overwrite the password prop would result again in "PASSWORD is not an instance member" error.
The only way I would not get an error, but Acrobat would still silently fail to sign the field, is if I pass an array to the signatureSign function. But since I have no idea in what order the SigInfo object expects its properties, couldnt test this scenario further.
Like I said LotusScript is vb-like, so any vb or vb.net example of the signatureSign function, or usage of any other generic JS object, would be extremely halpful!
Thanks
P.S.: Acrobat Version is 8.1 Prof.

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply PDL. After two days research it did point me in the right way.
For everyone having the same problem here is my solution:
You wont be able to sign a document using only vb code, since, for example, the securityHandler.login function is restricted and may be executed only "inside" acrobat (i guess reading the documentation carefully does help!). So one solution would be to create a trusted function in acrobat's javascript folder and use that from vb with fields.ExecuteThisJavaScript("myProtectedFunction(a,b,c,d,...);").
I guess executing a menu item would also work, but i couldnt find a way to pass any arguments this way.
Still no idea on how to construct those javascript generic objects in vb, so any ideas would be greatly appreseated