Programmatically changing status of an annotation

[cagribal]

Hi,

I want to be able to change the status of an annotation from my plug-
in. Normally when you do it from acrobat itself, for instance when you
select review->accepted, you see that another annotation is added
below this annotation in the annotations list. And it is rather a
special annotation and is listed as Status in bold also a green check
appears on the pop-up of the annotation. The problem is how to add
such a status annotation programmatically. Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

Cagri

[cagribal]

Update: Here is the implementation (with minor details omitted) I
tried:

PDAnnot statusannot;
ASFixedRect thisRect;
PDAnnotGetRect(annot, &thisRect); //Annot is the comment whose
status is changed
//Create a PDAnnot object
statusannot = PDPageCreateAnnot (page, ASAtomFromString("Text"),
&thisRect);
//Cast the PDAnnot object to a PDTextAnnot object
statusannot = CastToPDTextAnnot(statusannot);

//Open the annotation, set the text, and add it to a page
PDTextAnnotSetOpen (statusannot , true);
PDTextAnnotSetContents (statusannot , "Accepted set by bcagri",
strlen("Accepted set by bcagri"));

//Get the CosDoc
AVDoc curr_doc = AVAppGetActiveDoc();
PDDoc myPDDoc = AVDocGetPDDoc(curr_doc);
CosDoc cd = PDDocGetCosDoc(myPDDoc);

//Get annotation dictionary
CosObj statusDict = PDAnnotGetCosObj(statusannot);
CosObj strObj = CosNewString(cd, false, "bcagri", 6);
CosDictPut (statusDict , ASAtomFromString ("T"), strObj);

CosDictPutKeyString(statusDict , "State", CosNewString(cd, false,
"Accepted", 8));
CosDictPutKeyString(statusDict , "StateModel", CosNewString(cd,
false, "Review", 6));
//statusannot is added as a child to annot and refers to its status,
described in PDF Reference 1.7, page 620
CosDictPut (statusDict , ASAtomFromString ("IRT"), PDAnnotGetCosObj
(annot));
PDPageAddAnnot(page, -2, statusannot);

This is the implementation of the description on page 620 of the PDF
Reference 1.7. But unfortunately it doesn't work.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

On Apr 3, 3:17*pm, cagribal <cagri.balke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to be able to change the status of an annotation from my plug-
> in. Normally when you do it from acrobat itself, for instance when you
> select review->accepted, you see that another annotation is added
> below this annotation in the annotations list. And it is rather a
> special annotation and is listed as Status in bold also a green check
> appears on the pop-up of the annotation. The problem is how to add
> such a status annotation programmatically. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cagri