respond to button click in custom server control

[Martin]

Hi,

I have produced a custom server control that simple outputs a row of 26
buttons, one button for each letter of the english alphabet.

now what I would like to do is catch the button click inside the server
control when it is clicked on.
however when I click on a button at present I get an error saying that the

An error has occurred because a control with auto-generated id
'AtoZcontrol1' could not be located to raise a postback event. To avoid this
error, explicitly set the ID property of controls that raise postback
events.

I attempted to follow this advice but to no avail.
I have include my code below in the hope that somebody could point out my
error or offer me any advice.

many thanks in advance.

cheers

martin.
namespace serverControls
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for AtoZcontrol.
/// </summary>
[DefaultProperty ("Text"),
ToolboxData("<{ 0}:AtoZcontrol runat=server></{0}:AtoZcontrol >")]
public class AtoZcontrol : System.Web.UI.W ebControls.WebC ontrol,
System.Web.UI.I NamingContainer
{
//public event buttonClicked() ;
private string text = "My A to Z Control";
Panel pnl;
string[] alphabet;

[Bindable(true),
Category("Appea rance"),
DefaultValue("" )]
public string Text
{
get
{
return text;
}

set
{
text = value;
}
}
protected override void OnInit(EventArg s e)

{
base.OnInit (e);
if (Page != null)
{
Page.RegisterRe quiresPostBack( this);
}

}
protected override void CreateChildCont rols()
{
alphabet = new string[26];
alphabet[0] = "A";
alphabet[1] = "B";
alphabet[2] = "C";
alphabet[3] = "D";
alphabet[4] = "E";
alphabet[5] = "F";
alphabet[6] = "G";
alphabet[7] = "H";
alphabet[8] = "I";
alphabet[9] = "J";
alphabet[10] = "K";
alphabet[11] = "L";
alphabet[12] = "M";
alphabet[13] = "N";
alphabet[14] = "O";
alphabet[15] = "P";
alphabet[16] = "Q";
alphabet[17] = "R";
alphabet[18] = "S";
alphabet[19] = "T";
alphabet[20] = "U";
alphabet[21] = "V";
alphabet[22] = "W";
alphabet[23] = "X";
alphabet[24] = "Y";
alphabet[25] = "Z";
pnl = new Panel();
Button btn;

for (int i = 0 ; i < alphabet.Length ; i++)
{
btn = new Button();
btn.ID = "btn_" + i.ToString();
btn.Text = alphabet[i].ToString();
btn.Click += new EventHandler(bt nSubmit_Click);
pnl.Controls.Ad d(btn);
}
base.CreateChil dControls();
}

private void btnSubmit_Click (object sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Web.Http Context.Current .Trace.Write("G OT
MESSAGE","btnSu bmit_Click");
}

/// <summary>
/// Render this control to the output parameter specified.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="output"> The HTML writer to write out to </param>
protected override void Render(HtmlText Writer output)
{
pnl.RenderContr ol(output);
}
}
}

[Kannan.V [MCSD.net]]

hi martin,

Its all got to do with the Sequence of events happening in the control life
cycle.
Comment this line in the onInit method - Page.RegisterRe quiresPostBack( this);
and your control should work.

Or by any chance if u want to handle postback change events here's how u
need to tackle it.

Basically RegisterRequire sPostBack tells the containing page that our
control needs to be notified when post-back happens. In the .NET framework,
the callbacks are accomplished through events and delegates. The Page class
has a method RegisterRequire sPostBack that needs to be called and handed a
reference to our control. This method call registers our control with Page
for receiving events.

For our control to receive and register events you have to implement the
IPostBackDataHa ndler, this will include two stubs for handling postback data.
Include whatever code you might want to handle when the page is posted back
in these two events (ie: when the posted data is changed, like in a textbox
where the text is changed after loading and the page is posted back to the
server, this postdatachanged event is fired)

public void RaisePostDataCh angedEvent()
{
// TODO: Add AtoZcontrol.Rai sePostDataChang edEvent implementation
}

public bool LoadPostData(st ring postDataKey,
System.Collecti ons.Specialized .NameValueColle ction postCollection)
{
// TODO: Add AtoZcontrol.Loa dPostData implementation
return false;
}

You might have got some idea on this, for more information refer the MSDN
docs for Page.RegisterRe quiresPostBack( this);

Hope this explanation might have helped you,
Regds
Kannan.V
"Martin" wrote:

Hi,

I have produced a custom server control that simple outputs a row of 26
buttons, one button for each letter of the english alphabet.

now what I would like to do is catch the button click inside the server
control when it is clicked on.
however when I click on a button at present I get an error saying that the

An error has occurred because a control with auto-generated id
'AtoZcontrol1' could not be located to raise a postback event. To avoid this
error, explicitly set the ID property of controls that raise postback
events.

I attempted to follow this advice but to no avail.
I have include my code below in the hope that somebody could point out my
error or offer me any advice.

many thanks in advance.

cheers

martin.
namespace serverControls
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for AtoZcontrol.
/// </summary>
[DefaultProperty ("Text"),
ToolboxData("<{ 0}:AtoZcontrol runat=server></{0}:AtoZcontrol >")]
public class AtoZcontrol : System.Web.UI.W ebControls.WebC ontrol,
System.Web.UI.I NamingContainer
{
//public event buttonClicked() ;
private string text = "My A to Z Control";
Panel pnl;
string[] alphabet;

[Bindable(true),
Category("Appea rance"),
DefaultValue("" )]
public string Text
{
get
{
return text;
}

set
{
text = value;
}
}
protected override void OnInit(EventArg s e)

{
base.OnInit (e);
if (Page != null)
{
Page.RegisterRe quiresPostBack( this);
}

}
protected override void CreateChildCont rols()
{
alphabet = new string[26];
alphabet[0] = "A";
alphabet[1] = "B";
alphabet[2] = "C";
alphabet[3] = "D";
alphabet[4] = "E";
alphabet[5] = "F";
alphabet[6] = "G";
alphabet[7] = "H";
alphabet[8] = "I";
alphabet[9] = "J";
alphabet[10] = "K";
alphabet[11] = "L";
alphabet[12] = "M";
alphabet[13] = "N";
alphabet[14] = "O";
alphabet[15] = "P";
alphabet[16] = "Q";
alphabet[17] = "R";
alphabet[18] = "S";
alphabet[19] = "T";
alphabet[20] = "U";
alphabet[21] = "V";
alphabet[22] = "W";
alphabet[23] = "X";
alphabet[24] = "Y";
alphabet[25] = "Z";
pnl = new Panel();
Button btn;

for (int i = 0 ; i < alphabet.Length ; i++)
{
btn = new Button();
btn.ID = "btn_" + i.ToString();
btn.Text = alphabet[i].ToString();
btn.Click += new EventHandler(bt nSubmit_Click);
pnl.Controls.Ad d(btn);
}
base.CreateChil dControls();
}

private void btnSubmit_Click (object sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Web.Http Context.Current .Trace.Write("G OT
MESSAGE","btnSu bmit_Click");
}

/// <summary>
/// Render this control to the output parameter specified.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="output"> The HTML writer to write out to </param>
protected override void Render(HtmlText Writer output)
{
pnl.RenderContr ol(output);
}
}
}