Pop-up form sending data to the calling form?

[Bjorn Sagbakken]

With ASP.NET 2.0

I want to add a nice and sleek feature to my application where the user
typical clicks a button to open a smaller window to enable a search, lets
say for customers or products or whatever.

So far this is easy by adding a script tag and window.open with appropriate
settings.

The challenge comes when the user has searched and selected his item, and
clicks [Ok] in this popup form.
How do I return the values to the calling form, into the appropriate
textboxes?

If this cannot be done directly on the client side, I think this may be done
with a postback of the caller form, but then; how do I force a callback of
the first form (the caller form) when the secondary (the pop-up) closes?

(And yes, I know the search issue can be solved with hiding/showing panels
or views on an asp-form, but I would like to simulate a more windows like
behaviour, if possible)

Bjorn

[Teemu Keiski]

Hello,

maybe my blog post helps you

ASP.NET: How to create a postback on a main page from a popup window
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/ar...6/15/2340.aspx

Basically you can just set them with script, but you can also do it via
postback. Per my sample, it's totally up to how the script on the main page
is generated.
--
Teemu Keiski
AspInsider, ASP.NET MVP
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
http://teemukeiski.net

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With ASP.NET 2.0

I want to add a nice and sleek feature to my application where the user
typical clicks a button to open a smaller window to enable a search, lets
say for customers or products or whatever.

So far this is easy by adding a script tag and window.open with
appropriate settings.

The challenge comes when the user has searched and selected his item, and
clicks [Ok] in this popup form.
How do I return the values to the calling form, into the appropriate
textboxes?

If this cannot be done directly on the client side, I think this may be
done with a postback of the caller form, but then; how do I force a
callback of the first form (the caller form) when the secondary (the
pop-up) closes?

(And yes, I know the search issue can be solved with hiding/showing panels
or views on an asp-form, but I would like to simulate a more windows like
behaviour, if possible)

Bjorn

[Bjorn Sagbakken]

Thanks. I have saved your blog to my favorites and will try it out later.
It explains a lot, so I think it will be very useful.

Bjorn

"Teemu Keiski" <jo****@aspalliance.comwrote in message
news:uK**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Hello,

maybe my blog post helps you

ASP.NET: How to create a postback on a main page from a popup window
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/ar...6/15/2340.aspx

Basically you can just set them with script, but you can also do it via
postback. Per my sample, it's totally up to how the script on the main
page is generated.
--
Teemu Keiski
AspInsider, ASP.NET MVP
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
http://teemukeiski.net

"Bjorn Sagbakken" <bj*****@online.nowrote in message
news:Vo*********************@telenor.com...

>With ASP.NET 2.0

I want to add a nice and sleek feature to my application where the user
typical clicks a button to open a smaller window to enable a search, lets
say for customers or products or whatever.

So far this is easy by adding a script tag and window.open with
appropriate settings.

The challenge comes when the user has searched and selected his item, and
clicks [Ok] in this popup form.
How do I return the values to the calling form, into the appropriate
textboxes?

If this cannot be done directly on the client side, I think this may be
done with a postback of the caller form, but then; how do I force a
callback of the first form (the caller form) when the secondary (the
pop-up) closes?

(And yes, I know the search issue can be solved with hiding/showing
panels or views on an asp-form, but I would like to simulate a more
windows like behaviour, if possible)

Bjorn