DataGrid Read Footer TextBox

[williamfrenette]

To add record into my grid I use the footer way like explain here :
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/021203-1.aspx

But i dont want a Add button on each row so i call the showfooter with
another button.

DBEditDataGrid.ShowFooter := true;
DBEditDataGrid.SelectedIndex := DBEditDataGrid.Items.Count;
LoadDataFromDB;
DataBindGrid;

The problem is that i dont have the ( e As DataGridCommandEventArgs )
to go read in textbox with something like :

var txtStorID :TextBox;
txtStorID = e.Item.FindControl('add_storID')

So i tried: DataGrid.FindControl('add_storID');

but the object dont exist...

By the way im with Delphi but if you have a vb or c# idea it would be
great too.

Thank you.

 

[Ken Cox - Microsoft MVP]

Make sure you're only looking with FindControl() in the Footer, not in the
header or items.

 

[Guest]

Hi William,

Because when creating datagrid, the control's ID in datagrid is recreated.
You need use new ID to get its reference:

In footer, it seems like

newId = datagrid.ID + ":_ctl" + (datagrid.Items.Count + 2) + ":" + Original_ID

Then you can use (C#)

this.FindControl(newId)

Or more precisely, you can get its id by its ClientID in
datagrid_ItemDataBound event:

if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Footer)
{
TextBox txt = e.Item.FindControl("txtIn") as TextBox;
string txtId = txt.ClientID.Replace("__", ":_").Replace("_" + txt.ID,
":" + txt.ID) ;
}

To store it in ViewState or Session, then when postback you use it.

HTH

Or more
Elton Wang



HTH

 

[williamfrenette]

Thank you

The real problem with Delphi is this line:

var txtPrjCod : TextBox;

txtPrjCod := DataGrid.FindControl('DBEditDataGrid__ctl4_addPrjCod');

It dont want to convert the control to textbox type.
It give an incompatible type: textbox, control error.
I tried many things to convert it but im out of idea.

With C# I would only do
txtPrjCod :=
(textbox)DBEditDataGrid.FindControl('DBEditDataGrid__ctl4_addPrjCod');

But delphi kind of suck with these cast function.

DBEditDataGrid__ctl4_addPrjCod is good (i looked in the source code of
the html page)

Thank u