Why can't Javascript functions in User Control be referenced?

[Robert]

I had previously posted this in the Slider section: http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/slider/strange-msg-quot-microsoft-jscript-runtime-error-radslidingpane-beforeexpand-is-undefined-quot.aspx

But I now realize that this problem is not directly related to the Slider but likely has something to do with the loading sequence of Javascript.

To get to the heart of the problem, I created a simple little user control with this layout code:

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="FullFaceMining.ascx.cs" Inherits="DataEntry.UserControls.FullFaceMining" %>

<script type="text/javascript">
  function radTreeView1_Test(sender, eventArgs) {
    debugger
  }
</script>

<telerik:RadTreeView ID="radTreeView1" runat="server" OnClientDoubleClick="radTreeView1_Test">
</telerik:RadTreeView>

Note that it doesn't actually "do" anything but it has the same pattern of a client-side event referring to a client-side event handler.  Lo and behold, it also fails when it's loaded.  So at least there's some consistency!

But please believe me ... this was all working fine for the past 6 months!!!  Suddenly and inexplicably, my project is seemingly unable to reference a user control's Javascript code now.  Clearly I've changed something that has effected this problem but what?!?

Robert W.
Vancouver, BC

[sitefinitysteve]

Does the firebug console tab show ANY other javascript errors by any chance (on page load w/out clicking on anything?)

That's the only time I've found script functions not working...

Steve

[Robert]

Steve,

I haven't seen any other Javascript errors.  The fact is, I can imagine that dynamically loading a User Control can get rather complicated.

I've actually solved the entire problem by moving all of the Javascript to external files.  To do this I had to dump all of the embedded ASP.Net control references.  Now everything is handled with jQuery finding the necessary objects.

It would be mighty useful is Telerik expanded their documentation and provided solutions that didn't involve embedded ASP.Net references for every solution.

Robert

[sitefinitysteve]

Well the only other thing I can think of is that the UserControl exists multiple times on the page, and in that case I could see there being problems since the same JS function would exist a whack of times....