RadGrid flickers onTimer update

[Martin Smith]

Hi,

I have set a timer to fire every 3 seconds. In the timer's function call I am doing a .Rebind()

This causes the grid to disappear and reappear. 

I don't really want to re-render the whole grid - Ideally I would like to just update a couple of cells in the grid.

Is this possible?

thx

[Daniel]

Hello Martin,

You can ajaxify selected controls from your RadGrid by adding the settings programmatically as demonstrated below:
Add AjaxSettings programmatically

protected void Page_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //ajaxify the button in the first grid item
    Button btn1 = RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Items[0].FindControl("Button1") as Button;
    RadAjaxManager1.AjaxSettings.AddAjaxSetting(btn1, btn1, null);
}

Regards,
Daniel
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[Martin Smith]

What if I just want to update text?

[Daniel]

Hello Martin,

You have to have some placeholder for this text - a regular label control for example.

Regards,
Daniel
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[Martin Smith]

is it possible in java script to loop though the cells updating their contents?

[Martin Smith]

This didn't work at all.

I'm thinking I want to use the timer to update an invisible label on my form - them I'm going to use Java script to update the cells in the table from the text in the invisible label.

how can I iterate through the table and get/set cells? 

[Martin Smith]

I seem to have got this working by REMOVING the timer from the RadAjaxManager, which is not what I would have expected.

anyway, thanks for the suggestions.