Persisting Custom Colors?

[Mark Kucera]

I'm using the RadControls v2010.1.309.35


With the rad editor is there a way to persist custom colors so that when a user comes back their custom colors are retained?  i'm fine with using a cookie approach if necessary so that the custom colors are user/browser specific.

Thanks!
-Mark

[Rumen]

Hi Mark,

RadEditor populates its color collection on the client (on the first loading of the ColorPicker dropdown) and it is not accessible on the server, so in order to preserve the custom colors that were added. As a workaround I suggest you to pass the client-side color collection on the server upon postback using an Hidden Field, e.g.:

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<telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEditor1" runat="server">
</telerik:RadEditor>

<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button1" OnClientClick="beforePostbackHandler()" />

<input type="hidden" id="colorArray" runat="server" />

<script type="text/javascript">
    var beforePostbackHandler = function()
    {
        var editor = $find("<%= RadEditor1.ClientID %>");
        var colorArray = document.getElementById("colorArray");

        colorArray.value = editor.get_colors();
    }
</script>

and after that add these colors to the server-side collection on pageLoad, e.g.:

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protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (colorArray.Value != "")
    {
        string[] colors = colorArray.Value.Split(new char[]{','});

        for (int i = 0; i < colors.Length; i++)
        {
            RadEditor1.Colors.Add(colors[i]);
        }
    }
}

Once you receive the custom colors you can save them in a database and load them depending on the logged user.

Greetings,
Rumen
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[Mark Kucera]

Thanks Rumen, for the most part i was able to take this as is and make it work.    I set it up using cookies as the storage method which will work for our scenario.  We have lots of controls and postbacks on this page so figuring out where to insert the save/update/load code to some work but otherwise i think this will work just fine.  I appreciate the quick reply.

-Mark