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How to reference Telerik Client-Side control from custom Ajax Client-Side Control?

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Skywalker asked on 31 Jul 2008, 11:15 PM
Here is the situation: I wrote a Clientside control, that is composed of the RadTabStrip control, using the ASP.NET AJAX client libraries .

I want my client-side control class to be able to handle events from the client-side TabStrip, like tabSelected.

This is easily done like this:

initialize: function()   
    {  
        MyControls.WizardTabStrip.callBaseMethod(this'initialize');  
          
        // Add custom initialization here  
        this._tabSelectedHandler                =   Function.createDelegate(thisthis._onTabSelected);  
          
        // The next line fails, because the client-side TabStrip object is not yet created: it will be created after our custom client-side control is created  
        this.get_tabStrip().add_tabSelected(this._tabSelectedHandler);  
    },  
 
get_tabStripID: function()  
    {  
        return this._tabStripID;  
    },  
    set_tabStripID: function(value)  
    {  
        this._tabStripID = value;  
    },  
 
get_tabStrip: function()  
    {  
        return $find(this.get_tabStripID());  
    },  
 
_onTabSelected : function(sender, args)  
    {  
        // Do things when a tab is selected  
    } 

However, line 9 fails, because the RadTabStrip is a child control of my Composite Control (which implements IScriptControl) and my custom clientside control is $created before the RadTabStrip client-side control is $created.

The easiest solution would be to attach the tabSelected eventhandler for the custom client control instance in the pageLoad() event, but isn't there are smarter way?


Thanks.

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answered on 31 Jul 2008, 11:45 PM

I included the generated javascript after the page is rendered to the browser to illustrate my issue:

Sys.Application.add_init(function() {  
    $create(MyControls.WizardTabStrip, {"nextStepButtonID":"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_courseEditor_ctl04_nextStep","previousStepButtonID":"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_courseEditor_ctl04_previousStep","tabStripID":"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_courseEditor_wizardTabStrip","validationGroup":null}, nullnull, $get("ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_courseEditor_wizardTabStripContainer"));  
});  
Sys.Application.add_init(function() {  
    $create(Telerik.Web.UI.RadTabStrip, {"_selectedIndex":0,"_skin":"Telerik","attributes":{},"clientStateFieldID":"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_courseEditor_wizardTabStrip_ClientState","multiPageID":"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_courseEditor_wizardMultiPage","selectedIndexes":["0"],"tabData":[{},{},{}],"validationGroup":"Course"}, nullnull, $get("ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_WorkspaceArea_courseEditor_wizardTabStrip"));  
}); 

You see, the "MyControls.WizardTabStrip" client-side control references the "Telerik.Web.UI.RadTabStrip" client-side control in the initialize method.
Of course, that control does not yet exist, as the $create(Telerik.Web.UI.RadTabStrip) method is invoked secondly.

Is there a smart way to change this order?
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Atanas Korchev
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answered on 01 Aug 2008, 07:02 AM
Hi Sipke,

Perhaps you can use the AddComponentProperty method.

Kind regards,
Albert
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