Add an eventhandler on a button_click

[Alessandro Rossi]

Hi,
I am having this problem:
I have developed a composite component which has 2 components: a textbox and a button.
I need to add an eventhandler to a button click. I have added the eventhandler, in the CreatechildControls override, but it doesn't work.
this is the code:

namespace Space1
{
public class LookUp: System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl , INamingContainer
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox txtRisultato = new TextBox();
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button BtnLookUp = new Button();

public LookUp()
{
EnsureChildControls() ;
}
private void BtnLookUp_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtRisultato.Text = "Hi!!!";
}
protected override void CreateChildControls ()
{
Controls.Add(BtnLookUp);
Controls.Add(txtRisultato);
BtnLookUp.Text = "...";
Controls.Add (new LiteralControl ("<TABLE>"));
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<TR>"));
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<TD>"));
Controls.Add(txtRisultato);
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</TD>"));
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<TD>"));
Controls.Add(BtnLookUp);
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</TD>"));
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</TR>"));
Controls.Add (new LiteralControl("</TABLE>"));
BtnLookUp.Click+=new EventHandler(BtnLookUp_Click);
}
}
}

How can I fire the button click event?

Thank you
Alessandro Rossi

[Chris Jackson]

The problem is this: you are instantiating this control when you create an
instance of the class, which is every time that you respond to a request.
After you instantiate this control, you then add an event handler to it. Of
course, there is no event to respond to on this newly instantiated control -
the event happened on the control that it instantiated on the first page
request.

What you need to do, in the OnInit method, is make a call to
Page.RegisterRequiresPostback(this). To ensure that you actually have a
hosting page, you should check for Page != null first. Then, you can
implement IPostBackDataHandler to handle the post back data. You have two
methods to implement: LoadPostData and RaisePostDataChangedEvent.

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"Alessandro Rossi" <al**************@areaitsrl.com> wrote in message
news:10**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi,
I am having this problem:
I have developed a composite component which has 2 components: a textbox
and a button.
I need to add an eventhandler to a button click. I have added the
eventhandler, in the CreatechildControls override, but it doesn't work.
this is the code:

namespace Space1
{
public class LookUp: System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl ,
INamingContainer
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox txtRisultato = new TextBox();
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button BtnLookUp = new Button();

public LookUp()
{
EnsureChildControls() ;
}
private void BtnLookUp_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtRisultato.Text = "Hi!!!";
}
protected override void CreateChildControls ()
{
Controls.Add(BtnLookUp);
Controls.Add(txtRisultato);
BtnLookUp.Text = "...";
Controls.Add (new LiteralControl ("<TABLE>"));
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<TR>"));
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<TD>"));
Controls.Add(txtRisultato);
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</TD>"));
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<TD>"));
Controls.Add(BtnLookUp);
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</TD>"));
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</TR>"));
Controls.Add (new LiteralControl("</TABLE>"));
BtnLookUp.Click+=new EventHandler(BtnLookUp_Click);
}
}
}

How can I fire the button click event?

Thank you
Alessandro Rossi