Application crashes on selecting an item in RadSide Drawer

[Prava kafle]

Hi,

I am using a RadSideDrawer as shown in this link (http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/xamarin/controls/sidedrawer/sidedrawer-overview).

I have a Grouped listview to show hierarchical data. When I select an item from side drawer for the first time, it alerts correct information, but if I try to select second item it crashes. 

Is there any working sample on Side Drawer, can someone help me with this?

       private void M4ReportDrawer_SelectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            object cc = e.NewItems[0];
            string reportName =  (cc as M4DrawerItem).ReportName;
             this.DisplayAlert("Selected item:", reportName, "OK");
            (this.Content.FindByName<RadSideDrawer>("M4ReportDrawer")).IsOpen = false;
        }

 

Regards,

Prava

[Lance | Manager Technical Support]

Hi Prava,

The reason you're getting an exception is because the SelectionChange event also fires when an item is deselected. A deselection of the first item occurs when you tap the 2nd item.

So your code: object cc = e.NewItems[0], will cause an exception because there is nothing in NewItems when the first item is deselelected before the second item becomes selected.

The proper way to handle this would be to either check e.NewItems for items before requesting an item at an index. As an example, this will work for your needs:

private void M4ReportDrawer_SelectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
     if (e.NewItems != null && e.NewItems.Count > 0)
     {
          object cc = e.NewItems[0];
          string reportName = (cc as M4DrawerItem).ReportName;
          this.DisplayAlert("Selected item:", reportName, "OK");
         (this.Content.FindByName<RadSideDrawer>("M4ReportDrawer")).IsOpen = false;
     }
}

Note: You can also catch items that were deselected by inspecting e.OldItems in the event handler.

Please let us know if you have any further trouble. 

Regards,
Lance | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Telerik by Progress