public PDVariableText(PDAcroForm theAcroForm) 
{
        super( theAcroForm );
}

Parameters:

theAcroForm - The acroform.

Also see:

PDField#PDField(PDAcroForm,COSDictionary)

 public PDVariableText(PDAcroForm theAcroForm,
    COSDictionary field) 
{
        super( theAcroForm, field);
        da = (COSString) field.getDictionaryObject(COSName.getPDFName("DA"));
}

Parameters:

theAcroForm - The acroForm for this field.

field - The field's dictionary.

Also see:

org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField#PDField(PDAcroForm,COSDictionary)

 public boolean doNotScroll() 
{
        return BitFlagHelper.getFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_DO_NOT_SCROLL );
}

 public boolean doNotSpellCheck() 
{
        return BitFlagHelper.getFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_DO_NOT_SPELL_CHECK );
}

 protected COSString getDefaultAppearance() 
{
        return da;
}

 public int getQ() 
{
        int retval = 0;
        COSNumber number = (COSNumber)getDictionary().getDictionaryObject( COSName.getPDFName( "Q" ) );
        if( number != null )
        {
            retval = number.intValue();
        }
        return retval;
}

This will get the 'quadding' or justification of the text to be displayed. 0 - Left(default)
1 - Centered
2 - Right
Please see the QUADDING_CONSTANTS.

 public String getValue() throws IOException 
{
        return getDictionary().getString( "V" );
}

getValue gets the fields value to as a string.

 public boolean isFileSelect() 
{
        return BitFlagHelper.getFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_FILE_SELECT );
}

 public boolean isMultiline() 
{
        return BitFlagHelper.getFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_MULTILINE );
}

 public boolean isPassword() 
{
        return BitFlagHelper.getFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_PASSWORD );
}

 public boolean isRichText() 
{
        return BitFlagHelper.getFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_RICH_TEXT );
}

 public  void setComb(boolean comb) 
{
        BitFlagHelper.setFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_COMB, comb );
}

Set the comb bit.

 public  void setDoNotScroll(boolean doNotScroll) 
{
        BitFlagHelper.setFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_DO_NOT_SCROLL, doNotScroll );
}

Set the doNotScroll bit.

 public  void setDoNotSpellCheck(boolean doNotSpellCheck) 
{
        BitFlagHelper.setFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_DO_NOT_SPELL_CHECK, doNotSpellCheck );
}

Set the doNotSpellCheck bit.

 public  void setFileSelect(boolean fileSelect) 
{
        BitFlagHelper.setFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_FILE_SELECT, fileSelect );
}

Set the file select bit.

 public  void setMultiline(boolean multiline) 
{
        BitFlagHelper.setFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_MULTILINE, multiline );
}

Set the multiline bit.

 public  void setPassword(boolean password) 
{
        BitFlagHelper.setFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_PASSWORD, password );
}

Set the password bit.

 public  void setQ(int q) 
{
        getDictionary().setInt( COSName.getPDFName( "Q" ), q );
}

This will set the quadding/justification of the text. See QUADDING constants.

 public  void setRichText(boolean richText) 
{
        BitFlagHelper.setFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_RICH_TEXT, richText );
}

Set the richText bit.

 public  void setValue(String value) throws IOException 
{
        COSString fieldValue = new COSString(value);
        getDictionary().setItem( COSName.getPDFName( "V" ), fieldValue );
        //hmm, not sure what the case where the DV gets set to the field
        //value, for now leave blank until we can come up with a case
        //where it needs to be in there
        //getDictionary().setItem( COSName.getPDFName( "DV" ), fieldValue );
        if(appearance == null)
        {
            this.appearance = new PDAppearance( getAcroForm(), this );
        }
        appearance.setAppearanceValue(value);
}

 public boolean shouldComb() 
{
        return BitFlagHelper.getFlag( getDictionary(), "Ff", FLAG_COMB );
}