Making the Toolbar User-configurable

[Stuart Hemming]

I have a class that I use to supply the image URL for toolbars. The values are held in an XML file.

I can use this quite successfully to set the ImageUrl of the various buttons in the page's code-behind.

I'd like to be able to use the same idea for populating this property in the markup.

I thought to just write something like this ...

<telerik:RadToolBarButton Value="Add" ImageUrl='<%= IconManager.GetButton("Add") %>' />

But, it seems, you can't do that.

Is there a way around this or a way to achieve the same result?

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Stuart

[Cori]

Hello Stuart,

Wouldn't you use the binding syntax "<%#", instead of "<%=" to assign properties to a server control?

 

Perhaps that is the issue.

[Stuart Hemming]

Nah, I tried that yesterday.

I've actually come up with a nice solution (or most of one, anyway) in the code behind that requires no effort on the part of the page developer.

I'll prolly post something here when I've finished it.

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Stuart

[Guy]

Still not finished ?  Or forgotten to post it ?  ;-)

[Stuart Hemming]

I never did get it to work, so I replaced ImageUrl (and IconUrl, where appropriate) with a custom attribute and, as all our pages and controls inherit from the same base classes, I wrote a couple of methods to look for the custom attribute and to then get the correct value from my Catalogue file and set the ImageUrl (or IconUrl) appropriately.

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Stuart