preOpen event

Description

Initiates when a form filler performs an action that causes the drop-down list to appear, such as clicking the arrow icon on the drop-down list or by tabbing into the drop-down list and using the down arrow. This event initiates before the contents of the drop-down list are displayed.

Note: This event applies only to the Drop-down List object.

Type

Interactive event

Support

Client application

Availability

Acrobat and Adobe Reader

yes

HTML browser

no

Version

XFA 2.4

Example

You can use this event to control the loading of large numbers of list items. For example, you can use this event to load a fixed number of records from a data source into a drop-down list. This improves the performance of the form for the form filler at run time.

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