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How to determine field under the mouse-position

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Hello,

we need to implement to "drag" a text from outside the viewer into a form field of a pdf inside the viewer. Because of the missing "drag and drop"-feature we have to find an alternative way to do that.

Is it possible to get the name of the form field under the current mouse-position?
If this would be possible, we could get the fieldname at the current mouseposition on mousebutton up and set it programmatically to the desired value.

It would also be good to set the focus in an form-field to make it easier to "navigate the user" to a specific field.

Do you see possibilities to do this?


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Hello Hans-Peter,

Passed this question to the appropriate developer, but he is in our Canadian office, so the reply will be posted here a bit later.

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Re: How to determine field under the mouse-position

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Hi, Hans-Peter.

1. Firstly you need to handle the "Notifications.Mouse" notification and the get from it:

"Notifications.Mouse.x" / "Notifications.Mouse.y"
- mouse screen cursor coordinates

"Notifications.Mouse.Page"
- index of page that is under mouse cursor

2. Then you may use the "ViewPointsToPagePoints" method of page object to translate screen-point to point on the page:

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object[] args = new object[4];
args[0] = mouseX;
args[1] = mouseY;

// translating coords to page coord-space:
object dataOut;
axCoPDFXCview1.DoDocumentVerb(0, "Pages[" + pageIdx + "]", "ViewPointsToPagePoints", dataIn, out dataOut, (int)PXCVA_Flags.PXCVA_Sync);

object[] res = (object[])dataOut;
double pageX = (double)res[0];
double pageY = (double)res[1];
3. Then use:

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// get annots cont on the page:
object dataOut;
axCoPDFXCview1.DoDocumentVerb(0, "Pages[" + pageIdx + "]", "GetAnnotsCount", stub, out dataOut, (int)PXCVA_Flags.PXCVA_Sync);

int annotsCnt = (int)dataOut;
int fieldIndex = -1;
for (int i = (annotsCnt - 1); i >= 0; i--)
{
    object annotIdx = (object)i;
    axCoPDFXCview1.DoDocumentVerb(0, "Pages[" + pageIdx + "]", "GetAnnotRect", annotIdx, out dataOut, (int)PXCVA_Flags.PXCVA_Sync);
    object[] rect = (object[])dataOut; // 4 numbers
    double left = (double)rect[0];
    double top = (double)rect[1];
    double right = (double)rect[2];
    double bottom = (double)rect[3];
    if (PtInRect(pageX, pageY, left, top, right, bottom))
    {
          axCoPDFXCview1.DoDocumentVerb(0, "Pages[" + pageIdx + "]", "GetAnnotType", annotIdx, out dataOut, (int)PXCVA_Flags.PXCVA_Sync);     
          int annotType = (int)dataOut;
          if (annotType == 4) // widget/field
          {
                 fieldIndex = i;
                 break; 
          }
    }
}

// now you may select annot(widget)
if (fieldIndex >= 0)
{
       axCoPDFXCview1.DoDocumentVerb(0, "Pages[" + pageIdx + "]", "SelectAnnot", (object)fieldIndex, out dataOut, (int)PXCVA_Flags.PXCVA_Sync);
       // and get name of selected field
       axCoPDFXCview1.DoDocumentVerb(0, "Pages[" + pageIdx + "]", "GetSelectedField", (object)fieldIndex, out dataOut, (int)PXCVA_Flags.PXCVA_Sync); 
       string selFieldName = (string)dataOut;
} 
// - sorry but no way to get field name without selecting it before...
HTH.
Vasyl Yaremyn
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Re: How to determine field under the mouse-position

Post by prosozial_schmitt »

Hello Vasyl,

thank you for your sample. I'll try to implement it.
:)

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:)
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