Order of field name retrieval

I use Open Office version 2.0 to design my PDF with empty form fields (a template PDF).

Then, I have an utility of mine that "reads" the PDF and lists the form fields that this PDF contains.The purpose of this utility is to generate a source code to be pasted into my original code. Something like PDFformfieldname="".

Then I do :

FOR index=1 TO formfieldcount
formfieldname=getformfieldtitle(index)
NEXT

Finally : the problem is that the FOR/NEXT above sometimes wont retrieve the field names on the order they appear at the PDF.

Is there a way to make this field name retrieval to be done on a TAB ORDER manner ? Or, at least to retrieve some other information from the fields, such as their positioning, so that I could classify the field names ?

Because my generated source code gets messed up, that is, the fields are listed not on the order that they appear on the page...

Thanks in advance for your support !

Use the loop to retrieve the list of all the form fields and retrieve the tab order at the same time. Place both pieces of information in an 2 dimensional array.

dim formfieldArray(formFieldCount,2)

FOR index=1 TO formfieldcount 

  formfieldArray(index,0) = QP.getFormFieldTabOrder(index)

  formfieldArray(index,1) = QP.getformfieldtitle(index)

NEXT

Then sort the array by the array column 0 using whatever sort algorythmn you want.

Edited by bogey