Kinetic Control Compendium

PDF Viewer

A component which can show a PDF file inline in the application.

Property Group Property Description
Basic Id Unique identifier for the control
Basic Label Text :mag_right: Sets the label within the control. Doesn’t Show up anywhere.
Behavior On Blur Click this to create an OnBlur event for the control. On Blur is triggered when the control loses focus.
Behavior On Create Click this to create an OnCreate event for the control On Create is triggered when the control is painted to the GUI.
Comments Comments Add some developer notes to the control. These are not customer-facing and are only visible in App Studio (Fig. A)
Data Key Field Indicates that a bound component is a key field. If true, the field is enabled if there is no current record, allowing the user to select an existing record or create a new one.
Data EpBinding Bind the form data to a DataView. This view will automatically be populated if the imported PDF form has form fields included in it. Format: DataView. (Fig. B)
Data Selected Page :mag_right: Tool tip says “Actual selected page”. Typing in a numeric value does nothing.
Layout Alignment :mag_right: Set the alignment for the control. Valid options are Left, Center, Right. Doesn’t work. I mean, it does something, but Right and Center throw the whole thing off of the screen. :woman_shrugging:
Layout Width :mag_right: Sets the specific width (pixels) for the control. Doesn’t work.
State Personalizable If true, a user can personalize this component(hide/show)
State Customizable If true, a user can customize this component in child layers
State Hidden Hides the control from view.
State Disabled Disables the control. The control will not allow editing or focus.
State Read Only Makes the control read only so that it will not allow editing. The control can still be focused.
State Auto Focus When enabled, the control is automatically focused on creation.
Advanced Show in Toolbar Disable to hide the entire toolbar. (Fig. C)
Advanced Show Open File Button Disable to hide the Open File Button. (Fig. C)
Advanced Show Zoom Buttons Disable to hide the Zoom Buttons. (Fig. C)
Advanced Page View Mode :mag_right: So, this worked for me initially to where single would show one page at a time and multiple would allow you to scroll down through them all, buuuut it stopped working.
Advanced Show Paging Buttons Disable to hide the Paging Buttons (Fig. C)
Advanced Show Sidebar Button Disable to hide the Show Sidebar Button. (Fig. C)

Figure A: Comments

Figure B: EpBinding

Here’s it in action from an old post: PDF Viewer Widget - #15 by hmwillett

Figure C: Show Buttons

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