RadTimePicker: client side assign time as string

[archimede]

Good day,

we are having some problems while trying to assign a string time value to a radtimepicker.

Page logic is as follows:
We have a formview with a bound control. That control is displaying a string with the value of a previous radtimepicker user inserted value.
We need to clientside assign the string value of the bound control to a radtimepicker in the current page.

We've read the api at
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/calendar-client-side-basics.html
and there the only method seems to be set_selectedDate as a method to update the target field.
The problem is that set_selectedDate accepts only a date type, while our source type is a string.

We don't want to implement culture support for conversion from time string to time date, so we need to know:
1- is there an alternative client side method for setting the time in a radtimepicker, that uses a string parameter
2- is there an 'universal' datetime format that we can Date.Parse out time string ("08:30") so that the radtimepicker will accept it without culture and timezone problems?

Thanks in advance

[archimede]

we received an error while posting, and thought the post was gone so we went ahead and reposted. please delete the other posts since they're duplicates thanks

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hello Francesco,

If you can ensure that you have a correct time format, you can use the following approach for setting that time in the RadTimePicker:

<telerik:RadCodeBlock ID="RadCodeBlock1" runat="server">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function pageLoad() {
            var picker = $find("<%=RadTimePicker1.ClientID%>");
            picker.get_textBox().value = "8:00";
            picker.get_textBox().focus();
            picker.get_textBox().blur()
        }
    </script>
</telerik:RadCodeBlock>

<telerik:RadTimePicker runat="server" ID="RadTimePicker1"></telerik:RadTimePicker>

Please note that you need to focus and blur the textBox element in order for the control to update its selected date.

Hope this helps.


Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
Telerik