I have a string which is ultimately the id of a CheckBox.
What I need to be able to do is to access the CheckBox's properties from the string
var myCheckBox:Object;
var myString:String;
myString = "checkbox_1"
myCheckBox = Object(myString); ?!?!
... and then I'd need to get to myCheckBox.selected, and myCheckBox.label etc
easier answer:
if(this.hasOwnProperty(myString) && this[myString] is CheckBox) {
myCheckBox = this[myString] as CheckBox
}
It's a bit of overcoding (since the as keyword will return a null if it's not a checkbox and you could better handle it that way with potentially less code), but that should do ya.
Best of luck.
If you know what DisplayObjectContainer (e.g. Sprite, MovieClip) the CheckBox is inside you can use getChildByName.
Unfortunately if you are using Flex containers (like Group) there is no function getElementByName(). There is getElementAt so you could write a loop that iterates over all of a Groups elements until it encounters one that matches the name you have.
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I am trying to create a poll system that will ask the users for the number of options they would like to add from a dropdownlist.
Then when the user choose a number i would like to add text-boxes for those numbers and finally use asp.net to iterate through the text-boxes and add their values in the database.
Example:
User chooses to add 5 options.
I use Jquery to to append 5 inputs to the form.
User adds their values.
I iterate through the text-boxes and execute a void based on these
values.
i am able to do the first 3 steps but i am stuck on the 4th step. To solve it i tried to use a loop:
foreach (TextBox tb in form1.Controls)
{
Response.Write(tb.Text);
}
but that throws an error:
Unable to cast object of type 'System.Web.UI.LiteralControl' to type 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox'.
how can i iterate throw the text-boxes?
thanks
Any static content is represented by a LiteralControl, which is why you experience that. A real easy way is to use LINQ:
var ctls = form1.Controls.OfType<TextBox>();
foreach (var ctl in ctls) { .. )
Or check the type as you loop through the controls to make sure it's a textbox first:
foreach (Control tb in form1.Controls)
{
if (tb is TextBox)
Response.Write(((TextBox)tb).Text);
}
Brian's answer seems a solid one. Another option that comes to mind at first sight is:
Declare a function...
Declare a simple array or even a string in js
Iterate from client side your inputs
And for each iteration you should be saving the value in that array or concatenating the value.
The array then can be saved as a string in some asp hiddenfield in order to do your server-side stuff.
Best regards.
I'll explain my problem as brief as possible. I have a variable bandName, the value is String that i get through an API.
public function haalNaam(selectedChart:Object):String
{
var bandName:String = selectedChart.name;
}
I use this var in a repeater for a label. This repeater repeats 5 times, so it shows the 5 most hyped artists:
<repeater>
<label text="{haalNaam(lastfmCollection.currentItem)}"/>
</repeater>
Next, i had to transport the var bandName to another component. I managed to do this with this command:
var theName = "LastFmApi(this.parentApplication).bandName".
This code works, but I only manage to get the bandName of the last element in the repeater (5th one). I have no idea how i can
receive the names of the artists 1,2,3 or 4. How can i get to those values?
First, it doesn't look like what you've pasted in is functional code (your haalName function doesn't return anything, and your repeater doesn't have the id referred to in the label).
Second, why don't you just use lastfmCollection.currentItem.name in the label's text property, and skip the function call?
Third, you don't say exactly what the goal is, so I'll assume that you want to click one of the items in the repeater and put the label text in the variable theName. That would look like this:
theName=(event.target as Label).text;
Note that you may also want to consider using a DataGroup.
I have encountered a problem and I didn't manage to find any soultions yet. Let me simplify things a bit.
I have 2 forms, the first contains an ASP ListBox with multi select mode enabled. I submit the form and in the other form I use just for testing purposes this snippet of code:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
foreach (string formKey in Request.Form.AllKeys)
{
if (formKey != null)
{
if (formKey.Equals("ctl00$MainContent$ListBox1"))
Label1.Text = Request.Form[formKey];
}
}
}
The problems is that the values that come from the listbox (the values that i selected in the previous form) are separated by "," for ex. "test1,test2,test3". How can i change this separator to "$" for example? I need to change it because the actual values may contain "," and i don't manualy feed them to the listbox.
I can't use any other mode of transfering this values between the form because the entire application uses this model. The values that i get are then sent to a workflow where there will be manipulated and in the workflow i need to know where each listbox item starts and ends so it must be an unique separator.
Any help is apreciated! Thank you very much
Thank you MatteKarla but unfortunately this does not solve my problem. Yes, this is a good way of transfering the values from one form to another.
However i must use the method I described above with Request form keys because the listbox is one of many others "parameters" that are generated at runtime and have their values sent to a workflow method that takes this values. And i can't afford to change that in my application.
My problem is that coma (",") separator is used by default with a multiselect listbox.
I thought that there maybe is a method to change that separator from coma to another char because the coma can also be included in the value itself and this will create confusion.
As i said if i select three values test1, test2 and test3, the result with my method will be a string looking like "test1,test2,test3". However a "test1$test2$test3" would be much better.
But I'm affraid that changing this default separator is not possbile. I must think at a method to overcome this problem like replacing before feeding the listbox all the intended coma from the values with some other char not to create confusion. But this is not a great way of doing it.
On your first page/form (First.aspx.cs) create a public property with the listbox:
public ListBox PostedListBox { get { return ListBox1; } }
Set the postback-url for the button to Second.aspx
Second page in the aspx-file after the #Page-directive add:
<%# PreviousPageType VirtualPath="~/First.aspx" %>
Then in Form_Load on Second.aspx.cs you can extract the values:
if (PreviousPage != null)
{
ListBox postedListbox = PreviousPage.PostedListBox;
foreach (var index in postedListbox.GetSelectedIndices())
{
var itemText = postedListbox.Items[index].Text;
}
}
Or you could just try to locate the control by using:
if (PreviousPage != null)
{
var control = PreviousPage.FindControl("ListBox1") as ListBox;
}
Third Edit:
You could use GetValues:
Request.Form.GetValues("ctl00$MainContent$ListBox1");
returns a string array containing each of the selected items.
I have a UI component that, for various reasons, I have to construct programatically. The component is a table of radio buttons grouped by column.
Right now, I'm constructing the column groups like so:
private function createGroupsForItemList(items: XMLList): void {
for each (var item: XML in items) {
var rbGroup: RadioButtonGroup = new RadioButtonGroup();
groups[item.#level.toString()] = rbGroup;
}
}
I'm trying to associate the RadioButton instances with the column groups like so:
private function createValueControl(item: XML): UIComponent {
var control: RadioButton = new RadioButton();
control.label = "";
control.group = groups[item.#level.toString()];
control.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, updateSelection);
return control;
}
I can see in the debugger that the control has an association to the group:
control.group == groups[item.#level.toString()]
However, I can see equally that the group does not know anything about the control:
group.radioButtons.length == 0
I imagine that this is because the setter for group in RadioButton is a dumb setter; all it does is copy to the variable, which doesn't do the magic that groupName does. However, I can't seem to find the value I should use to set the RadioButton.groupName property correctly.
So, in short, I'm stumped on how to get these bits to talk to each other. How do I do this?
-- EDIT --
It turns out that I can have the groups created and associated simply by setting the groupName property, but I can't get at the group to set up a selection listener; the group is NULL immediately after the setting process, which means that the second line below throws the Flex equivalent of an NPE:
control.groupName = groupNameForLevel(item);
control.group.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, updateSelection);
First instinct is that this issue has to do with invalidateDisplayList and when and how that is called. Of course, since issues related to that function are behind a number of Flex's quirks, I may just be scapegoating.
This is not the answer to your question per se, but it seems like it might actually work as an alternate solution.
RadioButtonGroups will initialize based on a IFlexDisplayObject. This means that you can do something like:
var c:HBox = new HBox();
var rbg:RadioButtonGroup = new RadioButtonGroup( c );
// do stuff with rbg.
c.addChild( new RadioButton() );
The problem is that it may not be the most practical answer, but it has the decided benefit of being a workable solution.
Setting groupName should work.
All I can suggest is to step through the group() getter of the RadioButton component and see where exactly it is failing. Are you programmatically creating the group too? If that's the case, maybe it isn't initialized fully yet.
I have this really random problem with is bugging me. It works at the end of the day but the problem took some time to figure out and was wondering why this happens so if anyone shed some light on the subject I would be really grateful. Here is the problem
I have the following two columns on my datagrid
<asp:boundcolumn
datafield="contentsection.Id"
headerstyle-cssclass="dgHead"
headertext="Section"
itemstyle-cssclass="dgItem" />
and
<asp:templatecolumn>
<itemtemplate><%#Eval("contentsection.Id") %></itemtemplate>
</asp:templatecolumn>
The first column gives me the error of:
A field or property with the name 'contentsection.Id' was not found on the selected data source
but the second on runs fine. Any ideas or theories as to why this is happening ?
The way that I call and bind my data is like so:
Page Load Code Behind
ContentList.DataSource = ContentBlockManager.GetList();
ContentList.DataBind();
The GetList() function it is overloaded and by default passed a 0
public static List<ContentBlockMini> GetList(int SectionId)
{
List<ContentBlockMini> myList = null;
SqlParameter[] parameters = { new SqlParameter("#ContentSectionId", SectionId) };
using (DataTableReader DataReader = DataAccess.GetDataTableReader("dbo.contentblock_get", parameters))
{
if (DataReader.HasRows)
{
myList = new List<ContentBlockMini>();
}
while (DataReader.Read())
{
myList.Add(FillMiniDataRecord(DataReader));
}
}
return myList;
}
and my filling of the data record. The ContentSection is another Object Which is a property of the ContentBlock object
private static ContentBlockMini FillMiniDataRecord(IDataRecord DataRecord)
{
ContentBlockMini contentblock = new ContentBlockMini();
contentblock.Id = DataRecord.GetInt32(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("Id"));
contentblock.Name = DataRecord.GetString(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("Name"));
contentblock.SEOKeywords = DataRecord.IsDBNull(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("SEOKeywords")) ? string.Empty : DataRecord.GetString(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("SEOKeywords"));
contentblock.SEODescription = DataRecord.IsDBNull(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("SEODescription")) ? string.Empty : DataRecord.GetString(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("SEODescription"));
if (DataRecord.GetInt32(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("ContentSectionId")) > 0)
{
ContentSection cs = new ContentSection();
cs.Id = DataRecord.GetInt32(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("ContentSectionId"));
cs.Name = DataRecord.IsDBNull(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("ContentSectionName")) ? string.Empty : DataRecord.GetString(DataRecord.GetOrdinal("ContentSectionName"));
contentblock.contentsection = cs;
}
return contentblock;
}
There you go that is pretty much the start to end.
Databinding can only access "top level" properties on an object. For example, if my object is
Company with simple properties CompanyId and Name and a child object for Address, databinding can only access CompanyId and Name, not Company.Address.City.
Eval can access child object properties if you import the namespace using an #Import page directive.
The "Bind" marker is a two-way bind and is made using the default namespace attached to the datasource of the object. This can't be overridden, and because of this tightly coupled connection the namespace should be left off as assumed (since it's dynamically pulled from the datasource).
Eval is a one-way binding that can be used with any namespace that will fulfill a proper evaluation. Dates, strings, method calls, etc. The namespace provided in your example just provides eval with a marker on where to get the data relevant.
The key here is the nature of the binding. Eval is a "fire and forget" sort of binding where as Bind is more rigid to facilitate the two-way.
The DataField property approach isn't complicated enough to support dot notation; it expects a direct reference in your underlying data source; it takes that field and checks the data source, which it can't find it by the exact string.
The second approach, eval, is more dynamic, but actually I wasn't sure if it supported dot notation... learn something everyday.
HTH.
It's necessary take a look to your DataSource, but you can do a simple test: convert the first column to a template column a try to Run.
In EntityFramework is possible Eval Properties using code like this: <%#Eval("Customer.Address.PostalCode") %>.
I dont know if it is your case, but if you provide more details about how to retrieve the DataSource we can help you.