[Solved] Creating RadEditor from a Class

[John Guinto]

Hi all, good day. I am wondering if its possible to create a radeditor in a class (not in a codebehind) and call the function that holds it in aspx. It will be helpful if I can cut my way through setting up all the editors in different pages when most of them have the same settings. I know I can use user control but I am trying to avoid creating multiple ascx files for different reasons. Consider the following code that works (Unfortunately, this is inside a codebehind not a class ): 

namespace UserControlTest
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            createGenericEditor();
        }

        private void createGenericEditor()
        {
            RadEditor loadEditor = new RadEditor();
            loadEditor.ID = "RadEditor1";
            this.Controls.Add(loadEditor);
        }
    }
}

how do i do this in a class then call it in ASPX say <%# Class1.createGenericEditor() %>

thanks in advance.

[Rumen]

Hi John,

Please, find attached the requested example.


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Rumen
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[John Guinto]

Hi Rumen. Thank your for responding to my question. I checked the sample you gave but unfortunately, the solution i am looking for is how to programatically create radeditor from a Class aside from a codebehind. I got it solved but, it presents a newer problem that perhaps you might be able to tell me what to do. Here is my solution.

A class different from codebehind

namespace UserControlTest
{
    public partial class Class1 : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        public static void showRadEditor(Page thisPage)
        {
            RadEditor myEditor = new RadEditor();
            myEditor.ID = "RadEditor1";
            thisPage.Controls.Add(myEditor);

        }
    }
}

Codebehind

using UserControlTest;


namespace UserControlTest
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Class1.showRadEditor(this);
        }



    }
}

This works if I will call it inside a pageload of a codebehind, but my problem now is, I want to call the function in ASPX. It has something to do with layout so it will be more convenient to me to call it inside ASPX and when i call it like this:

<%# UserControlTest.Class1.showRadEditor(this) %>

I am getting an error saying "Cannot implicitly convert type void to object"

I am not sure if this is possible because i am new to dotnet. I am thinking that if I can have a collection of  functions in a class, they can just be called easily.

happy holidays. :-)
regards,
John

[John Guinto]

Hi Rumen,

By using the sample you gave, I think I got it working by using Placeholder controls.

Instead of declaring it as a page
public static void showRadEditor(Page thisPage)

I changed it to control
public static void showRadEditor(Control thisPage)

and then calling it like this in pageload:
 Class1.showRadEditor(PlaceHolder1);

If you have a better solution let me know.

regards,
John