User Guide

Acrobat Forms - JavaScript Object Specification

App Object Methods

alert

Parameters: cMessage, [nIcon], [nType]

Returns: nButton

This method displays an alert dialog on the screen. The minimum required parameter is a string

containing the message to be displayed. Optionally, an icon type can be specified by using the

nIcon parameter. The following is a list of icons and their associated values:

Additionally, a button group type can be specified:

This method returns the type of the button that was pressed by the user:

beep

Parameters: [nType]

Returns: none

Icon Value

Error (default) 0

Warning 1

Question 2

Status 3

Button Group Value

OK (default) 0

OK, Cancel 1

Yes, No 2

Yes, No, Cancel 3

Button Type Value

Error 0

OK 1

Cancel 2

No 3

Yes 4