Enable/Disable radtoolbar commanditems clientside

[GlenB]

I am currently enabling and disabling my radtoolbar commanditems (for my radgrid) on the serverside with the following code. This is working fine but requires a postback to the server which is too slow (2 secs before buttons update).

Serverside code (VB):

    Protected Sub radGrid_Cases_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
        For Each cmdItem As GridCommandItem In radGrid_Cases.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.CommandItem)
            Dim rdtlbr As RadToolBar = DirectCast(cmdItem.FindControl("rtb_Commands"), RadToolBar)
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Edit Case").Enabled = True
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Delete Case").Enabled = True
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Print Case").Enabled = True
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Email Case").Enabled = True
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Edit Payments").Enabled = True
        Next
    End Sub

    Public Sub DisableGridCommandButtons()
        For Each cmdItem As GridCommandItem In radGrid_Cases.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.CommandItem)
            Dim rdtlbr As RadToolBar = DirectCast(cmdItem.FindControl("rtb_Commands"), RadToolBar)
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Edit Case").Enabled = False
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Delete Case").Enabled = False
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Print Case").Enabled = False
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Email Case").Enabled = False
            rdtlbr.FindItemByText("Edit Payments").Enabled = False
        Next
    End Sub

I have been trying to change this over to be done on the client side (in the rowselected event) instead to make it more responsive, but I have been unable to find a clientside method of accessing these buttons as they are nested inside the radgrid commanditem toolbar.

[Iana Tsolova]

Hi GlenB,

In order to achieve your goal, I would suggest you to handle the RadToolBar OnClientLoad client-side event. There you can get the client-side object of the RadToolBar and save it in a global variable. Then you can use this variable in the OnRowSelected client-side event of the grid.

I hope this works for you.

Greetings,
Iana
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[GlenB]

Thanks, will give that a go.