trigger radwindow from postback

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  1. Clayton
    Clayton avatar
    47 posts
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    Nov 2009

    Posted 20 Jul 2010 Link to this post

    Alright, I've found a few posts on how to trigger a RadWindow (such as RadAlert, etc) from a server-side postback, but NONE work when the control generating the postback is 'ajaxified'. This is a huge letdown, since I had wanted to use radwindows for displaying exceptions,etc to the user.

    Here are some of the notable posts I've found:

    this, and this

    A year ago I was using the Ajax Toolkit, and relied on the "Modal Popup" for this same thing. It worked wonderfully. I could create a popup with a label, and set the label text on exception and call 'myPopup.visible=true;' and guarantee that it would show up for the user regardless of whether or not the postback control was ajaxified. Is it possible to replicate this functionality with the radwindow stuff?
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    Petio Petkov
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    Petio Petkov avatar
    825 posts

    Posted 20 Jul 2010 Link to this post

    Hi Clayton,

    You can use RadWindow's VisibleOnPageLoad property to show/hide RadWindows via AJAX/Postback. Keep in mind that if show RadWindow via AJAX you should update RadWindowManager(e.g. add RadWindowManager in UpdatePanel)

    The radAlert can be shown only via the RadWindowManager's radalert client-side method. If you want to show a radalert after AJAX you should use ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript to run a script, which will open a radAlert once the AJAX call is finished.

    The code below illustrates several ways of creating RadWindows/radAlerts - please choose the one which is most suitable for your needs.
    ASPX:
    <%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
    <head id="Head1" runat="server">
    </head>
    <body class="BODY">
        <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
        </asp:ScriptManager>
        <div>
            <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
                <ContentTemplate>
                    <telerik:RadWindowManager ID="RadWindowManager1" runat="server" PreserveClientState="false">
                        <Windows>
                            <telerik:RadWindow ID="RadWindow1" VisibleOnPageLoad="false" runat="server" NavigateUrl="http://www.google.com">
                            </telerik:RadWindow>
                        </Windows>
                    </telerik:RadWindowManager>
                    <asp:Button ID="btnShowAlreadyCreatedWindow" runat="server" OnClick="btnShowAlreadyCreatedWindow_Click" Text="AJAX - ShowAlreadyCreatedWindow" />
                    <asp:Button ID="btnShowNewWindow" runat="server" OnClick="btnShowNewWindow_Click" Text="AJAX - ShowNewWindow" />
                    <asp:Button ID="btnShowNewWindowUsingRadWindowClientAPI" runat="server" OnClick="btnShowNewWindowUsingRadWindowClientAPI_Click" Text="AJAX - ShowNewWindowUsingRadWindowClientAPI" />
                    <asp:Button ID="btnShowRadAlert" runat="server" OnClick="btnShowRadAlert_Click" Text="AJAX - ShowRadAlert" />
                </ContentTemplate>
            </asp:UpdatePanel>
        </div>
        </form>
    </body>
    </html>
    Codebehind:
    protected void btnShowAlreadyCreatedWindow_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           RadWindow1.VisibleOnPageLoad = true;
       }
       protected void btnShowNewWindow_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           RadWindow win = new RadWindow();
           win.ID = "NEWRADWINDOW";
           win.NavigateUrl = "http://www.microsoft.com";
           win.VisibleOnPageLoad = true;
           RadWindowManager1.Windows.Add(win);
       }
       protected void btnShowNewWindowUsingRadWindowClientAPI_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           String script = "function _openNewWindow(){{ " +
                "Sys.Application.remove_load(_openNewWindow);" +
                    " oMgr = GetRadWindowManager();" +
                    "var oWnd = radopen('http://www.yahoo.com', null);" +
                    " oWnd.set_title('NEW TITLE');" +
                    "}};" +
                "Sys.Application.add_load(_openNewWindow);";
           ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, this.GetType(), "openNewWindow", script, true);
       }
       protected void btnShowRadAlert_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           String script = "function _openRadAlert(){{ " +
              "Sys.Application.remove_load(_openRadAlert);" +
                  " radalert('<h3>SOME TEXT</h3>', null, null, 'Result');" +
                  "}};" +
              "Sys.Application.add_load(_openRadAlert);";
           ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, this.GetType(), "openRadAlert", script, true);
       }

    Let us know if you have any other questions.

    Kind regards,
    Petio Petkov
    the Telerik team
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