Search & Replace objects (image to image field) within LCD?

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I was wondering if there is a possibility to create a script which supports an automated sequence.
I planned to run through an imported PDF file while searching for "images"-type objects with a certain "tag". When such an object is found, it should be replaced by an "image field" type object.
Is it possible to implement this type of function?
Thanks!
Best regards,
andrejtmtld

I believe you can't do exactly what you mean.
These days, I am working a lot with Acrobat which has many script features in common with LiveCycle. Now, in Acrobat, you meet a lot of security issues when trying to add/remove fields at runtime. I believe Adobe people must have adopted the same approach for LiveCycle because most of the work done with it, will be converted to a pdf, i.e. mainly Acrobat or Reader objects.
This is where I got to:
var nodeList = xfa.form.form1.mainSub.nodes;
for (var i = 0; i < nodeList.length; i++){
 if (nodeList.item(i).className == "draw"){
 var fType = nodeList.item(i).ui.oneOfChild.className;
 if (fType == "imageEdit"){
 xfa.host.messageBox("First Check: "+ nodeList.item(i).name);
 var myField = nodeList.item(i);
 var url = myField.resolveNode("value.#image").href;
 xfa.host.messageBox("Second Check: "+url);
See these:
http://andrewalbrecht.com/content.php?pageID=76
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/designerHelp/
(Scripting --> Scripting Reference --> Scripting Objects --> Image)
As you can see, I can capture a static image. I'll find all of them. I think you can go further and select the ones you identified by a tag. Actually, what do you mean with "tag"? A tooltip?
Anyway, I believe you can get to the URLs the images you are interested in are pointing to. Now, if you were able to delete a static image and add a corresponding image field, you could assign the retrieved URLs to these freshly created fields.
At this point I found these:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/designerHelp/
(Scripting --> Scripting Reference --> Scripting Methods --> createNode; watch out the note and consider that a static image is a draw; however, in this case, you need to create an image field)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/designerHelp/
(Scripting --> Scripting Reference --> Scripting Methods --> remove)
and this:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/694384
However, it seems that though dataNodes can be created and deleted, I don't come to any changes of the form itself. I tried with
xfa.form.remerge();
or
xfa.form.recalculate(1);
and similarly with xfa.form.model object with no success.
I don't know whether I am doing something wrong here.
Anyway, I see only two alternatives:
1) hide and show fields: I think this is not of your interest because you are not creating the form from scratch (here you should prepare the form in advance with as many image fields as static images you intend to use and switch between those 2 kinds of object);
2) hide one static image and add a corresponding new instance of an hidden subform which contains just an image field you provide the right URL to. I think the instanceManager can work with subforms only:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/10.0/DesignerScriptingRef/WS92d06802c76abadb-3e14850 712a151d270d-7fa1.html
Following one the many tutorials around:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/designerHelp/index.htm?content=000847.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/designerHelp/index.htm?content=000177.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/10.0/DesignerScriptingRef/WS92d06802c76abadb-3e14850 712a151d270d-7ffa.html
you can reach the same effect as the static images were removed and image fields were created.

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