FIELD PANELS

When I go into "Start Forms Wizard" or "Add/Edit Fields" my
field panels aren't showing up to the left of my document. I'm
currently using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. I built this form and when I
was done I kinda locked it by going into ADVANCED, Extend features
in Abode Reader then saved and closed. I found an error on one of
the bubbles when you scroll over the top of one of the sections and
I need to fix it. I saved the document under a different name to
take off the "lock" feature and it let me in but it doesn't show my
field panel. HELP!

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public void clearButtonAction()     {
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Please help,
manisha

I do not want to go into detail, but there are some hints you can follow.
I am talking about AWT, not swing, you should decide which one you will use and don't mix the two of them.
If you want to run your applet in current browsers without requiring the java plugin, you should be aware, that most browsers support old versions of java and many convenient methods and classes are missing :-(
So
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You cannot use line break in a label. You should place more labels in a panel instead. I am not sure if the direction of FlowLayout can be set to vertical, but very probably it can. If so, that is your solution. If not - see what other layout managers you have available, but make sure your choice belongs to java.awt ! BorderLayout allows you to use up to three labels (=> 3 lines). And if nothing fits your needs, ... write a layout manager.
Well, hope I could help.

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               e.printStackTrace();
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     public EntryPanel getEntryPanel() {
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      * @return
     public JSplitPane getListEntrySplitPane() {
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      * @return
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public class MaterialInternalFrame extends ListEntryInternalFrame {
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     public MaterialInternalFrame(String string) {
          super(string);
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          material = new MaterialPanel();
          super.getEntryPanel().getFieldPanel().add(material);
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.Insets;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
* This panel contains entry field for Material.
public class MaterialPanel extends javax.swing.JPanel {
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     private JLabel fieldLbl;
     private JLabel titleLbl;
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               fieldLbl = new JLabel();
               nameTxt = new JTextField();
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               this.setLayout(thisLayout);
               thisLayout.columnWidths = new int[] {1,1};
               thisLayout.rowHeights = new int[] {1,1};
               thisLayout.columnWeights = new double[] {0.1,0.1};
               thisLayout.rowWeights = new double[] {0.1,0.1};
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               c.gridy = 0;
               c.gridwidth = 2;
               c.gridheight = 1;
               c.weightx = 0.0;
               c.weighty = 0.0;
               c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;
               c.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
               c.insets = new Insets(5, 0, 5, 0);
               c.ipadx = 0;
               c.ipady = 0;
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               fieldLbl.setText("Name:");
               c.gridy = 1;
               c.gridwidth = 1;
               c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHEAST;
               c.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 0, Constants.RIGHTGAP);
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               nameTxt.setText("Material Name");
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               nameTxt.setMinimumSize(Constants.txtDimension);
               nameTxt.setPreferredSize(Constants.txtDimension);
               c.gridx = 1;
               c.gridheight = 1;
               c.weightx = 1.0;
               c.weighty = 1.0;
               c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
               c.insets = new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0);
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          } catch (Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
}

Sorry, this is just a quick response...i haven't
really read your code too thoroughly.
You could try calling
super.getEntryPanel().validate(); after setting the
field panel
or super.getEntryPanel().updateUI();I have tried both but it doesn't work
when I change my postInitGUI function code as given below I am able to see the Label but the new panel I want to set is not getting set. I can add material panel in old panel but I am unable to reset that panel with new Panel.
// Function postInitGUI in MaterialInternalFrame class
public void postInitGUI() {
     super.getEntryPanel().getFieldPanel().add(new JLabel("Hello World"));
     material = new MaterialPanel();
     super.getEntryPanel().setFieldPanel(material);
}

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Hello,
I got a problem when trying to access my textfields in my field class, here is what I'm doing:
Fields.class
public class Fields extends JFrame {
   public Fields() {}
   public Component emploField() {
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   JPanel f_Panel, main_Panel;
   f_Panel.setLayout( new GridLayout(8, 2 );
   main_Panel.setLayout( new GridLayout( 2, 1 ) );
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   f_Panel.add(f_Name);
   main_Panel.add( f_Panel );
   return main_Panel;
}my main class
displayGUI.class
public class DisplayGui extends JFrame {
protected Fields fild;
protected JPanel panel;
public DisplayGui() {
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   setSize(300, 300 );
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}It's working perfect to display my fields, but if i try
fild.emploField().f_Name.setText("Type Your Name Here");
//In my DisplayGui classI got a error
Cannot Resolve Symbol
Variable f_Name
java.awt.Component
fild.emploField().f_Name.setText("Type your name here");
^
What I'm doing wrong?
Thank You

no, that wont work, and if it did the newly created component will not be displayed. you shoud instantiate an EmployeeField object with the traits you like, then you will be able to tweek it.
class EmployeeField extends JPanel{
   public JTextArea textArea
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      textArea = new JTextArea("area");
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}then in your main
empField = new EmpField();
and later
empField.textArea.setTet("newText");

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I rarely use Acrobat X, but I am forced to occasionally as I find a form that won't let me edit the field tab order in 8. I cannot find any way to resize the sidebar to view the field's full name when I am setting the tab order. Is it me, or is there no way to resize this panel?
I am guessing that I know the answer to this, but I figured I'd ask anyway.

It's not you.
I've requested before that they allow the field panel to be floating and resizable, but they didn't go for it, saying that floating panels will not be allowed. They do allow exceptions to this prohibition, such as Acrobat 11's new floating comments panel, so I'm hoping they will reconsider for Acrobat 12. I don't think it will happen unless enough people submit feature requests for this. I think I'll start drafting one to post in the Acrobat feature request forum here so those who agree can pile on.
BTW, setting a manual tab order is much improved in Acrobat 11. You can turn off the blasted automatic reordering "feauture" and select & drag multiple fields simultaneously in the list.

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I'm new to forms with no training. so i apologize if my question seems stupid. I checked the book (which sadly is for the wrong version of acrobat), the online help, and i even googled it, but haven't found my answer, which surprises me, so it's probably just that i'm using the wrong search terms.
I'm trying to find a button that got randomly tossed into the file and now i can't find it to put it in the right place. I have a 66 page form with, like a bazillion buttons, boxes and whatnot on it and i'm trying to find just this one button. I've seen lists of form fields in random things that pop up when the JS goes wonky, but i can't find my field in those because (i assume) it's only displaying the ones with busted JS.
i'm in acrobat 8 without indesign, or livecycle or any tools purported to make my life easier. Can this be done? My button is named HELP_BUTTON_5d and i guess i'm looking for some way to bring up a list of every form field (or every button for that matter) on the form, choose it and either get it's page number and x/y coordinates or get taken right to it. I'd happily use advanced search, but it didn't seem to want to let me search by form field name.
Thanks

First of all, you can open the Fields panel on the left, select that button
but its name and then click it and the file will jump to the page its
located and select it.
Using code, you can execute the following to get the button's page number
(remember it's 0-based, so 0 means page 1, etc.):
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This code will tell you the exact location of the button on the page:
this.getField("HELP_BUTTON_5d").rect
And this code will set the focus to that field:
this.getField("HELP_BUTTON_5d").setFocus()
By the way, just to make you feel better, InDesign or LiveCycle wouldn't
help you a bit with this problem...

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