Want to Dynamically Create a RadWindow in External Server-side Code

[Robert]

In my website project I have a top-level file called "Common.cs" that is shared by all the forms in the project.  It contains common code that needs to access the Website UI.  I'd like to dynamically create a dialog box that will allow the user to enter additional comments in the event of an error.

I've written some code that is not crashing but yet no RadWindow is appearing.  Here's the crux of what I have so far:

    public static void ShowErrorDialog(string msg, Constants.ErrorCode category, string location, Control parent)<br>    {<br>      RadWindow rw = new RadWindow();<br>      rw.ID = "rwErrorHandling";<br>      rw.VisibleOnPageLoad = true;<br>      rw.CssClass = "errorDialog2";<br>      rw.Behaviors = WindowBehaviors.Move;<br>      rw.EnableShadow = true;<br>      rw.VisibleStatusbar = false;<br>      rw.VisibleTitlebar = true;<br>      rw.Visible = true;<br>      //rw.AutoSize = true;<br>      rw.Width = 300;<br>      rw.Height = 200;<br>      rw.Modal = true;<br>      <br>      // Much more code here to create the contents of the dialog box<br>      <br>      parent.Page.Controls[0].FindControl("form1").Controls.Add(rw);<br>    }

And here's a sample call to the method:

  Website.Common.ShowErrorDialog("Test message", Constants.ErrorCode.UnexpectedRecordCount, "buttonTest", Page);

Hoping someone can tell me why the RadWindow is not appearing,

Robert

P.S. In case it helps, here's displayed info from jQuery when I'm stepping through client-side code:

? $('div[id$=_rwNewMuckpile]')[0].id
"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Mucking_rwNewMuckpile"
    endsWith: function String$endsWith(suffix) {
    /// <summary locid="M:J#String.endsWith" />
    /// <param name="suffix" type="String"></param>
    /// <returns type="Boolean"></returns>
    var e = Function._validateParams(arguments, [
        {name: "suffix"
    startsWith: function String$startsWith(prefix) {
    /// <summary locid="M:J#String.startsWith" />
    /// <param name="prefix" type="String"></param>
    /// <returns type="Boolean"></returns>
    var e = Function._validateParams(arguments, [
        {name: "pre
    trim: function String$trim() {
    /// <summary locid="M:J#String.trim" />
    /// <returns type="String"></returns>
    if (arguments.length !== 0) throw Error.parameterCount();
    return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');
}
    trimEnd: function String$trimEnd() {
    /// <summary locid="M:J#String.trimEnd" />
    /// <returns type="String"></returns>
    if (arguments.length !== 0) throw Error.parameterCount();
    return this.replace(/\s+$/, '');
}
    trimStart: function String$trimStart() {
    /// <summary locid="M:J#String.trimStart" />
    /// <returns type="String"></returns>
    if (arguments.length !== 0) throw Error.parameterCount();
    return this.replace(/^\s+/, '');

So something "appears" to be there but if I make this call: $find($('div[id$=_rwNewMuckpile]')[0].id)
then I get 'null'.  :-(

[Marin Bratanov]

Hello Robert,

Since you are creating an entirely new control you need to properly add it to the page. When you invoke the method you pass Page as a parameter, so I believe it is possbile that in your project that the control hierarchy is not correct, you may need to do parent.FindControl("form1").Controls.Add(rw); instead. Please debug your code and see if there is some server error at this poing. Please also make sure you are not calling it from an AJAX request, i.e. that the form is updated so taht the RadWindow is sent to it. What you can also try is to add this RadWindow to the parent element that invoked the method, not to the page, so that it is more probable that it will be included in the AJAX response.


Kind regards,
Marin
the Telerik team