I am trying to use the menu control for a tabbed menu system but it's
frustrating the hell out of me. The full code is listed below. The trouble
that I'm having is that, when the user clicks on a menu item, the page will
send back the id of the menu that was clicked. But it doesn't do that and I
can't figure out how to make it work. Looking at the code below, the
variable "strDBView" is always null. But it's a global variable and gets
assigned a value upon the menu click. I have tried putting that
Response.Write line in the !IsPostBack clause with the same results. If I
place the Response.Write line within the menu click event handler, it does
writes out a value as expected. So, it's like the value gets set and then,
upon page load, wiped out.
Any ideas? I have spent 4 days trying to figure this out.
Thanks in advance.
code follows:
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
string strDBView;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string strMenuLabel;
// why is strDBView always null? I'm assigning it a value within
the menu control click evet
Response.Write("<br />Here: " + strDBView + "</br >");
if (!this.IsPostBack)
{
for (int index = 0; index < mvTicketMan.Views.Count; index++)
{
strMenuLabel =
mvTicketMan.Views[index].ID.ToString().Replace("vw", "").Replace("_", " ");
mnuTicketMan.Items.Add(new MenuItem(strMenuLabel,
index.ToString()));
}
mnuTicketMan.Items[0].Selected = true;
}
}
protected void mnuTicketMan_MenuItemClick(object sender, MenuEventArgs
e)
{
mvTicketMan.ActiveViewIndex = Int32.Parse(e.Item.Value);
strDBView =
mvTicketMan.Views[Int32.Parse(e.Item.Value)].ID.ToString().Replace("vw",
"").Replace("_", " ");
// if I show the value here, it does indeed get assigned a proper
value
//Response.Write("<br />Here: " + strDBView + "</br >");
}
</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<link href="main.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:Menu ID="mnuTicketMan" Width="100%" runat="server"
Orientation="Horizontal"
StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="False"
OnMenuItemClick="mnuTicketMan_MenuItemClick">
<StaticMenuItemStyle CssClass=MenuCell ItemSpacing=0px />
<StaticHoverStyle CssClass=MenuCellHover />
<StaticSelectedStyle CssClass=MenuCellSelected ItemSpacing=0px />
</asp:Menu>
<asp:MultiView ID="mvTicketMan" runat="server" ActiveViewIndex="0">
<%--My Tickets--%>
<asp:View ID="vwMy_Tickets" runat="server" >
<table width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td class="Canvas">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</asp:View>
<%--End My Tickets--%>
<%--Watched Tickets--%>
<asp:View ID="vwWatched_Tickets" runat="server">
<table width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td class="Canvas">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</asp:View>
<%--End Watched Tickets--%>
<asp:View ID="vwAssigned_Tickets" runat="server">
<table width="100%" height="400px" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td class="Canvas">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</asp:View>
</asp:MultiView>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
