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Problem using AddHandler for dynamically created WebControls

Author
8 Jun 2005 9:12 PM
Nathan Sokalski
I am using the AddHandler statement to add a CheckedChanged event handler to
a series of RadioButtons that I create in a loop. However, the handler is
not being called for a reason I cannot determine. What is the problem? Here
is my code:

        Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
            currpoem = Server.UrlDecode(Request.QueryString("poem"))
            Dim ratinglabels As New TableRow
            Dim ratingselection As New TableRow
            For i As Integer = 1 To 10
                Dim currlabel As New TableCell
                currlabel.EnableViewState = False
                currlabel.Font.Names = New String() {"Arial", "Helvetica",
"Sans-Serif"}
                currlabel.Font.Size = FontUnit.Medium
                currlabel.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
                currlabel.Text = i
                ratinglabels.Cells.Add(currlabel)

                Dim currselection As New TableCell
                Dim radioselection As New RadioButton
                currselection.EnableViewState = False
                currselection.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
                radioselection.GroupName = "poemscore"
                radioselection.ID = "radScore" & i
                AddHandler radioselection.CheckedChanged, AddressOf
Me.Rating_CheckedChanged
                currselection.Controls.Add(radioselection)
                ratingselection.Cells.Add(currselection)
            Next
            tblRatingChoices.Rows.Add(ratinglabels)
            tblRatingChoices.Rows.Add(ratingselection)
            lblRatePoem.Text = "Rate Poem:<br>" & currpoem
            TitleBar.InnerText = "Rate Poem:  " & currpoem
            btnClose.Attributes.Add("onClick=", "window.close();")
        End Sub

        Private Sub Rating_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
            score = CByte(CType(sender, RadioButton).ID.Substring(8))
            btnSubmit.Enabled = True
        End Sub


When the page is run, everything looks as expected, but the CheckedChanged
event does not fire (or at least it does not call the Rating_CheckedChanged
procedure as expected). Any ideas? Thanks.
--
Nathan Sokalski
njsokal***@hotmail.com
http://www.nathansokalski.com/

Author
8 Jun 2005 10:10 PM
Bill Borg
Nathan, the checked_changed event needs a "handles" clause. This is added by
default, but it will magically disappear if you, say, go into the html and
change the id of the control. Add your own "handles..." or start over.

Bill

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"Nathan Sokalski" wrote:

> I am using the AddHandler statement to add a CheckedChanged event handler to
> a series of RadioButtons that I create in a loop. However, the handler is
> not being called for a reason I cannot determine. What is the problem? Here
> is my code:
>
>         Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
>             currpoem = Server.UrlDecode(Request.QueryString("poem"))
>             Dim ratinglabels As New TableRow
>             Dim ratingselection As New TableRow
>             For i As Integer = 1 To 10
>                 Dim currlabel As New TableCell
>                 currlabel.EnableViewState = False
>                 currlabel.Font.Names = New String() {"Arial", "Helvetica",
> "Sans-Serif"}
>                 currlabel.Font.Size = FontUnit.Medium
>                 currlabel.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
>                 currlabel.Text = i
>                 ratinglabels.Cells.Add(currlabel)
>
>                 Dim currselection As New TableCell
>                 Dim radioselection As New RadioButton
>                 currselection.EnableViewState = False
>                 currselection.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
>                 radioselection.GroupName = "poemscore"
>                 radioselection.ID = "radScore" & i
>                 AddHandler radioselection.CheckedChanged, AddressOf
> Me.Rating_CheckedChanged
>                 currselection.Controls.Add(radioselection)
>                 ratingselection.Cells.Add(currselection)
>             Next
>             tblRatingChoices.Rows.Add(ratinglabels)
>             tblRatingChoices.Rows.Add(ratingselection)
>             lblRatePoem.Text = "Rate Poem:<br>" & currpoem
>             TitleBar.InnerText = "Rate Poem:  " & currpoem
>             btnClose.Attributes.Add("onClick=", "window.close();")
>         End Sub
>
>         Private Sub Rating_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object,
> ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
>             score = CByte(CType(sender, RadioButton).ID.Substring(8))
>             btnSubmit.Enabled = True
>         End Sub
>
>
> When the page is run, everything looks as expected, but the CheckedChanged
> event does not fire (or at least it does not call the Rating_CheckedChanged
> procedure as expected). Any ideas? Thanks.
> --
> Nathan Sokalski
> njsokal***@hotmail.com
> http://www.nathansokalski.com/
>
>
>
Author
9 Jun 2005 2:33 AM
Nathan Sokalski
That was my first idea when writing the page (to manually create each of the
RadioButtons rather than generate them), so I decided to do that. Here is
what I have now for the event handler:

Private Sub Rating_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles radSelection1.CheckedChanged,
radSelection2.CheckedChanged, radSelection3.CheckedChanged,
radSelection4.CheckedChanged, radSelection5.CheckedChanged,
radSelection6.CheckedChanged, radSelection7.CheckedChanged,
radSelection8.CheckedChanged, radSelection9.CheckedChanged,
radSelection10.CheckedChanged

btnSubmit.Enabled = True

score = CByte(CType(sender, RadioButton).ID.Substring(12))

End Sub


As you can see, Rating_CheckedChanged is (supposedly) called by 10 different
RadioButton's CheckedChanged events. However, when I ran the debugger this
process was never called. I would think it would be called whenever the user
selected a different RadioButton (since radSelection1-radSelection10 all
have the same GroupName). Since the RadioButtons and Handles clause are
always there in my code (they are not dynamically added anymore), what could
be the problem? Thanks.
--
Nathan Sokalski
njsokal***@hotmail.com
http://www.nathansokalski.com/

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"Bill Borg" <BillB***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:588E3111-3EBB-44F1-941A-88A469CA953C@microsoft.com...
> Nathan, the checked_changed event needs a "handles" clause. This is added
> by
> default, but it will magically disappear if you, say, go into the html and
> change the id of the control. Add your own "handles..." or start over.
>
> Bill
>
> "Nathan Sokalski" wrote:
>
>> I am using the AddHandler statement to add a CheckedChanged event handler
>> to
>> a series of RadioButtons that I create in a loop. However, the handler is
>> not being called for a reason I cannot determine. What is the problem?
>> Here
>> is my code:
>>
>>         Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
>> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
>>             currpoem = Server.UrlDecode(Request.QueryString("poem"))
>>             Dim ratinglabels As New TableRow
>>             Dim ratingselection As New TableRow
>>             For i As Integer = 1 To 10
>>                 Dim currlabel As New TableCell
>>                 currlabel.EnableViewState = False
>>                 currlabel.Font.Names = New String() {"Arial",
>> "Helvetica",
>> "Sans-Serif"}
>>                 currlabel.Font.Size = FontUnit.Medium
>>                 currlabel.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
>>                 currlabel.Text = i
>>                 ratinglabels.Cells.Add(currlabel)
>>
>>                 Dim currselection As New TableCell
>>                 Dim radioselection As New RadioButton
>>                 currselection.EnableViewState = False
>>                 currselection.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
>>                 radioselection.GroupName = "poemscore"
>>                 radioselection.ID = "radScore" & i
>>                 AddHandler radioselection.CheckedChanged, AddressOf
>> Me.Rating_CheckedChanged
>>                 currselection.Controls.Add(radioselection)
>>                 ratingselection.Cells.Add(currselection)
>>             Next
>>             tblRatingChoices.Rows.Add(ratinglabels)
>>             tblRatingChoices.Rows.Add(ratingselection)
>>             lblRatePoem.Text = "Rate Poem:<br>" & currpoem
>>             TitleBar.InnerText = "Rate Poem:  " & currpoem
>>             btnClose.Attributes.Add("onClick=", "window.close();")
>>         End Sub
>>
>>         Private Sub Rating_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object,
>> ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
>>             score = CByte(CType(sender, RadioButton).ID.Substring(8))
>>             btnSubmit.Enabled = True
>>         End Sub
>>
>>
>> When the page is run, everything looks as expected, but the
>> CheckedChanged
>> event does not fire (or at least it does not call the
>> Rating_CheckedChanged
>> procedure as expected). Any ideas? Thanks.
>> --
>> Nathan Sokalski
>> njsokal***@hotmail.com
>> http://www.nathansokalski.com/
>>
>>
>>
Author
8 Jun 2005 10:40 PM
Mythran
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"Nathan Sokalski" <njsokal***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uWYa66GbFHA.796@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I am using the AddHandler statement to add a CheckedChanged event handler
>to a series of RadioButtons that I create in a loop. However, the handler
>is not being called for a reason I cannot determine. What is the problem?
>Here is my code:
>
>        Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
>            currpoem = Server.UrlDecode(Request.QueryString("poem"))
>            Dim ratinglabels As New TableRow
>            Dim ratingselection As New TableRow
>            For i As Integer = 1 To 10
>                Dim currlabel As New TableCell
>                currlabel.EnableViewState = False
>                currlabel.Font.Names = New String() {"Arial", "Helvetica",
> "Sans-Serif"}
>                currlabel.Font.Size = FontUnit.Medium
>                currlabel.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
>                currlabel.Text = i
>                ratinglabels.Cells.Add(currlabel)
>
>                Dim currselection As New TableCell
>                Dim radioselection As New RadioButton
>                currselection.EnableViewState = False
>                currselection.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
>                radioselection.GroupName = "poemscore"
>                radioselection.ID = "radScore" & i
>                AddHandler radioselection.CheckedChanged, AddressOf
> Me.Rating_CheckedChanged
>                currselection.Controls.Add(radioselection)
>                ratingselection.Cells.Add(currselection)
>            Next
>            tblRatingChoices.Rows.Add(ratinglabels)
>            tblRatingChoices.Rows.Add(ratingselection)
>            lblRatePoem.Text = "Rate Poem:<br>" & currpoem
>            TitleBar.InnerText = "Rate Poem:  " & currpoem
>            btnClose.Attributes.Add("onClick=", "window.close();")
>        End Sub
>
>        Private Sub Rating_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object,
> ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
>            score = CByte(CType(sender, RadioButton).ID.Substring(8))
>            btnSubmit.Enabled = True
>        End Sub
>
>
> When the page is run, everything looks as expected, but the CheckedChanged
> event does not fire (or at least it does not call the
> Rating_CheckedChanged procedure as expected). Any ideas? Thanks.
> --
> Nathan Sokalski
> njsokal***@hotmail.com
> http://www.nathansokalski.com/
>

This is because you are creating the control in Page_Load, and then
attaching the event handler to it.  During the next postback, the control
will get created again during page load and have the event handler attached
to it.  But the code that actually sync's the event to the event handler has
already occured (before Page_Load is called)...therefore, you are expecting
an event to be raised even though there is no control even created for the
handler.

So, try placing the code you have in Page_Load to Initialize (or whatever
that darn method's name is).  See if that works for ya :)

Mythran