Basically, I have an update panel in which i have a link button, when user clicks on the link button all the contents are cleared and textbox shows up in which user enters something and when user hit enter key, the update panel should be refreshed or gets updated or repopulated with all the contents .
How can I do it ???
The way I am trying to do this is that when event handler of link button is fired, I created a hidden button dynamically and assign it a new event handler which will get fired when user hits enter key.This new dynamic button is created inside link button event handler. In this new button event handler I will repopulate the contents back.
The problem with my way is the event handler of dynamically created button is not fired.
Why ???
Please try to answer in c#.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
My code #
protected void Submit_Click1(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Label1.Text = TextBox1.Text + TextBox2.Text + " are sucessfully registered";
Button mento = new Button();
mento.cssclass = "invisible";
mento.Click += new EventHandler(mento_click);
// here this new mento button is attached to update panel
updatepanel1.ContentTemplateContainer.Controls.add(mento);
}
Now the problem is mento_click event handler does not get fired ???
You can catch the enter key, in the textbox?
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//add event keydown
textBox1.KeyDown += new KeyEventHandler(textBox1_KeyDown);
}
void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
switch (e.KeyCode )
{
case Keys.Enter:
//YOur updatecode here:
MessageBox.Show("You press enter");
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}
You have to attach the event on page_init or page_load every time theres a request, or the event wont get hooked up to the control.
you can check out this link to understand why:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx
Example
if you want to hook it up on the submit you should do something like:
page_init(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CreateControls();
}
private void CreateControls()
{
//Create button with event and add to the panel
}
clickEvent(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
updatePanel.Update();
}
That should fire correctly the event. Im sorry i just wrote this on the fly and didnt test it, but i hope it gives you de general idea.
Cheers.
To all of you strugling with postback from buttons in asp.net, I would like to mention an alternative and ancient method of dealing with button-click events.
1) name your dynamically created buttons using a Prefix (like for instance this one: btn_). That way, every button you create will have a name starting with this prefix. For example the first button you create will have the name btn_0. You can achieve this by a routine like this one:
For _counter As Integer = 0 To 3
Dim butt As New Button
' the next 1 line is convenient when programming for the .net 4.0 framework:
butt.ClientIDMode = UI.ClientIDMode.Static
butt.butt.ID = "btn_" & _counter
butt.Text = "someting"
page.controls.add(butt)
next
2) ... and then, to handle it all, you can do it like this in the on_load event of your asp.net page:
If IsPostBack Then
For Each key As String In Request.Form
If InStr(Trim(key), "btn_") > 0 Then
Response.Write(Request.Form(key))
End If
Next
End If
Related
I have a windows form application with multiple buttons. I need to retrieve the text property of any button clicked in order to create a query to the database. the only way I know is to create a button click event and cast the sender as button then do a switch case for each button Id which seems very hectic since I probably will have more than 100 buttons in the entire application. So my question is there a generic key press method I can create which can retrieve the text property of any button pressed/clicked on the form? Please excuse me if the question is not very clear. Any help will be appreciate
Use a single click event handler for all similar kind of buttons. This way there will be click event subscribed for every button but only one method which will be executed for all buttons. You can determine which button was pressed as follows.
Using sender object as follows;
private void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var buttonText = ((Button)sender).Text;
//Query using buttonText
}
Update:
Above answer will still require you to subscribe click event for each button. If you don't want that then have a look at following approach;
You could use (ClickTransparentButton or) disable (Enabled=false) all these buttons and add click event on parent Form. Once you get click event you can get button which was clicked as follows;
private void Form1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var p = PointToClient(Cursor.Position);
var control = GetChildAtPoint(p);
if(control is Button)
{
var buttonText = ((Button)control).Text;
//Query using buttonText
}
}
But this has few disadvantages such as, you will not be able to operate these buttons using keyboard.
and more...
Create some function as buttons click handler:
private void buttonClickHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string buttonName = (sender as Button).Text;
}
2A. Connect Click event of every button to this handler.
2B. To automate connection of button click handler use something like that:
private void connectButtonsHandlers()
{
foreach(var c in this.Controls)
{
if(c is Button)
{
(c as Button).Click += buttonClickHandler;
}
}
}
Add this code to form constructor to perform connection at program start.
Some context. I've added inside Page_Load of a class Method1 that generates a repeater and Method2 that generates an array of buttons.
Each button is attached dynamically an event inside Method2.
The buttons will never change, but based on clicking a button the repeated elements should change.
My main problem is/are:
1) when I click a button, the event causes the page to load (Page_Load) which calls Method1, which generates the default repeater, instead of the one associated with my specific event attached to button x from the array of buttons; --> so, I wrapped up Method1 in !isPostBack ... then, nothing happens at all
How would you avoid this? What principles would you use for implementig this?
Attempted so far:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if(!IsPostBack)
{
GetItems(1, 2); //default values (first time the page is loaded)
GenerateButtons(10);
}
}
private void GenerateButtons(int c)
{
LinkButton[] x = new LinkButton[c];
for(int i=0; i<c;i++)
{
x[i] = new LinkButton();
x[i].Text = (i+1).ToString();
Panel1.Controls.Add(x[i]);
x[i].OnClientClick += new EventHandler(Button_Click);
}
}
protected void Button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button button = (Button)sender; // Which button was clicked;
GetItems(int.Parse(button.Text)-1, 3); //3 is a constant; first argument is index of button extracted from its caption
}
//clicking a button should load the page invoking GetItems() specific to the button pressed (first argument is its index) and should regenerate the buttons, maybe highlighting in some way the one that was previously pressed.
To help performance, it would also help not to regenerate the buttons after a page was first loaded.
I'm working with ASP.NET and C#.
My main problem is Button_Click is never invoked, probably because the buttons are regenerated when clicking a button so their definitions is recreated, including the buttons' events.
Your Button_Click handler would always be fired before the regeneration, anyway; so this is not the problem.
Your problem, however, lies in your x[i].OnClientClick += ... code.
You need to hook up to the .Click event of the LinkButton to listen to the right event.
Like this:
private void GenerateButtons(int c)
{
LinkButton[] x = new LinkButton[c];
for(int i=0; i<c;i++)
{
x[i] = new LinkButton();
x[i].Text = (i+1).ToString();
Panel1.Controls.Add(x[i]);
x[i].Click += new EventHandler(Button_Click); // Use the 'Click' event
}
}
Hope this helps!
i have a problem with user control.
i create it dynamically on my aspx page after clicking on a button:
protected void btnAddRules_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
RuleProperty Control = (RuleProperty)LoadControl("RuleProperty.ascx");
MyPanel.Controls.Add(Control);
}
when i click on a button of my user control, the button event wont fire and the user control will disappear. here is the button event:
protected void btnAdd_Click1(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
WowzaRule rule = GetRuleFromGUI();
RuleList.Add(rule);
//Session["RuleList"] = RuleList;
//List<WowzaRule> test = new List<WowzaRule>();
SaveToXMLFiles(txtdbnum.Text, RuleList);
}
i understand that after pressing the button on mypage the usercontrol is released and if its not created on pag_init or page Load it wont stay, but i need to create it on my button click event and find a way for it not to disapper.
thanks in advance, Daniel
You might have to add an event handler that it can fire the click event and call your delegate
Control.Click += btnAdd_Click1;
Dynamically created controls, once added, have to be on a page on every page load in order to work correctly. What happens in your case:
RuleProperty is added after the button click
Page loads with this control
User clicks on the button within RuleProperty
Control is not added to the control tree during the page load (corresponding code is only in the button click handler, and that button was not clicked)
ASP.NET does not know which control triggered the event, so the event is not processed
To go around this issue you need to add you control on every page loading, for example using some flag stored in ViewState:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (ViewState["AddRuleProperty"] != null && (bool)ViewState["AddRuleProperty"])
{
AddRulePropertyControl();
}
}
protected void btnAddRules_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
AddRulePropertyControl();
ViewState["AddRuleProperty"] = true;
}
private void AddRulePropertyControl()
{
RuleProperty Control = (RuleProperty)LoadControl("RuleProperty.ascx");
MyPanel.Controls.Add(Control);
}
Update.
If you want to remove the control from the page later on in the control's click handler, you need to remove corresponding ViewState key. This is not possible from the control directly, since property Page.ViewState is protected, and also this would have created an unwanted dependency.
What seems as the right way to do this is to subscribe to the very same event from the Page (you might need to make this event visible from the controller) and reset the key in there. Like this:
private void AddRulePropertyControl()
{
RuleProperty Control = (RuleProperty)LoadControl("RuleProperty.ascx");
Control.ButtonClick += RuleProperty_ButtonClick;
MyPanel.Controls.Add(Control);
}
private void RuleProperty_ButtonClick()
{
ViewState["AddRuleProperty"] = false;
}
Please note that event name here is not real, this is just a sketch of what can be done.
I have a Windows form named Form1 and panel within this form named panel1. I use the panel only to place buttons there so that I can group them and work with them separately from the other buttons in my Form1. For the purpose of my program I need to handle every button click made from the buttons inside panel1. For this purpose I use the same code snippet:
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
// Set a click event handler for the button in the panel
foreach (var button in panel1.Controls.OfType<Button>())
{
button.Click += HandleClick;
}
}
What I need to do is to have a way to identify which button exactly has been clicked. For this purpose I played a little bit with my handler method:
private void HandleClick(object o, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("HI" + o.ToString());
}
which gave me some hope because I get this:
It's the second part - Text: button4 which is actually enough information to continue with my work. But I can't find a way to get this piece of information without some complicated string manipulations. So is there a way to get this or other unique information about the button been clicked given the way I have written my code?
private void HandleClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var btn = sender as Button;
if (btn != null)
{
MessageBox.Show(btn.Text);
}
}
One option is to cast the object to a Button, but rather than doing the casting you can change how the event handler is assigned so that you don't need to cast in the first place:
foreach (var button in panel1.Controls.OfType<Button>())
{
button.Click += (_,args)=> HandleClick(button, args);
}
Then just change the signature of HandleClick to:
private void HandleClick(Button button, EventArgs e);
You need to cast sender to the Button class so you can access its properties:
Button b = (Button)sender;
MessageBox.Show(b.Text);
Inside asp.net form I have few dynamically generated buttons, all of this buttons submit a form, is there a way to get which button was submit the form in page load event?
The sender argument to the handler contains a reference to the control which raised the event.
private void MyClickEventHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button theButton = (Button)sender;
...
}
Edit: Wait, in the Load event? That's a little tricker. One thing I can think of is this: The Request's Form collection will contain a key/value for the submitting button, but not for the others. So you can do something like:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button theButton = null;
if (Request.Form.AllKeys.Contains("button1"))
theButton = button1;
else if (Request.Form.AllKeys.Contains("button2"))
theButton = button2;
...
}
Not very elegant, but you get the idea..
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
string id = "";
foreach (string key in Request.Params.AllKeys) {
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.Params[key]) && Request.Params[key].Equals("Click"))
id = key;
}
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(id)) {
Control myControl = FindControl(id);
// Some code with myControl
}
}
This won't work if your code is inside a user control:
Request.Form.AllKeys.Contains("btnSave") ...
Instead you can try this:
if (Request.Form.AllKeys.Where(p => p.Contains("btnSave")).Count() > 0)
{
// btnSave was clicked, your logic here
}
You could try:
if (this.Page.Request.Form[this.btnSave.ClientID.Replace("_", "$")] != null) {
}
please try this code in page load event
string eventtriggeredCategory = Request.Form["ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$ddlCategory"];
if eventtriggeredCategory is returning any value its fired the event of ddlCategory
this is works fine for me
Thanks
Jidhu
Request.Form["__EVENTTARGET"] will give you the button that fired the postback
Use CommandArgument property to determine which button submits the form.
Edit : I just realized, you said you need this at PageLoad, this works only for Click server side event, not for PageLoad.