Get location/coordinates for a field using JavaScript in Acrobat Professional

Question

Good day,
I am looking for a way to get the coordinates of a text field.
I would like to create a listbox and set the location of the listbox top left to the text fields bottom left coordinates, I have had a look at the scripting guides ... could not turn up anything.
I know how to create and populate this listbox using the JavaScript code, only problem is, to get the coordinates of the text box.

Answer 1

Try this:
1. Move or change the dimensions of the text boxes on the extracted page in the configuration that you want.
2. When you are satisfied with the new configuration, modify the following JavaScript to use the names of the text boxes that you want to include on the page.
//find_rect //find coordinates of text boxes whose names are included in the var rct,ary = ["fld_1","fld_2","fld_3","fld_4"]; //...etc.
for (j = 0; j<ary.length; j++){
console.println(ary[j]);
rct = this.getField(ary[j]).rect;
for (i= 0; i< rct.length; i++) console.println(rct[i]);
3. Add the modified code to the document level of form. (as a doc level javascript but with no function name or brackets included.
4. When you run the code, the coordinates for the fields that you have included in the array will be printed in the console window:
Example:
fld_1
21
777
296
717
fld_2
30
769
65
729