Tool Tips From Object Tag

Question

Hi,
Strange phenomenon just started happening.
I have many client flash sites, some of which have been
running for years.
Suddenly, if you let the mouse hover (just stay in one place
for a few seconds), a yellow "tool tip", you know those little
yellow rectangles with help in them, pops up. The text of the tool
tip is the Title parameter of the Object tag in the HTML file.
I have one site that has "banner" as the Title property in
the object tag. So, a little yellow box with the text "banner" pops
up erratically whenever you leave the mouse in one place for more
than a second or two. It also goes away randomly.
This has not happened before, until very recently, and it has
not happened on the PC - just on Safari on a Mac.
Flash Player update problem? I'm baffled. I've removed the
title property from the object tags for now, but I don't know if
that will fix the problem.
Anyone else seeing the same issue?
Thanks, AAK (Alan)

Answer 1

No matter how I create form fields, they all have a tool tip, even if there is null character string for its value.
You can create a small JavaScript program that you can run through Acrobat's JavaScript console to place a null string in the 'userName' property of each form field in the PDF.
// get the number of fields in this PDF
var nNumFields = this.numFields;
// a variable for the field name being processed
var cFieldName;
// loop through all of the fields in the PDF
for(i = 0; i < nNumFields; i++) {
// get the field name for the ith field
cFieldName = this.getNthFieldName(i);
// set the userName to a null string
this.getField(cFieldName).userName = "";
} // end for loop
See The Acrobat JavaScript Console (Your best friend for developing Acrobat JavaScript) by Thom Parker for information about using the JavaScript console in Acrobat.