Hi all, I got the following code on a forum. But I dont know how to use it in my code. Help!!!

public class MyRadioButtonList : RadioButtonList
    {

        private string HiddenValueFieldName
        {
            get
            {
                return this.ClientID + "_theValue";
            }
        }

        private string DivArrayName
        {
            get
            {
                return this.ClientID + "_theDivs";
            }
        }

        protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnPreRender(e);

            string script = "";
            script += "function setValue(theDiv){";
            script += "document.getElementById('" + HiddenValueFieldName + "').value = theDiv.getAttribute('value');";

            if(this.AutoPostBack)
                script += Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(this, "", false);
            else{
                script += "theDiv.style.backgroundColor='gray';";
                script += "for(i=0;i<" + DivArrayName + ".length;i++){";
                script += "var theVal=" + DivArrayName + "[i];";
                script += "if(theDiv.getAttribute('id') != theVal)";
                script += "document.getElementById(theVal).style.backgroundC olor='white';";
                script += "}";
            }

            script += "}";
            Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetTy pe(),"setValue",script,true);

            //register the hidden field
            Page.ClientScript.RegisterHiddenField(HiddenValueF ieldName, "");

            //register that LoadPostdata will be called even if control's UniqueID is not on post data collection
            Page.RegisterRequiresPostBack(this);

            //this is playing for the client-side color selection :-)
            System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
            foreach(ListItem litem in this.Items)
            {
                sb.Append("'");
                sb.Append(this.ClientID);
                sb.Append(this.IdSeparator);
                sb.Append(litem.Value);
                sb.Append("'");
                sb.Append(",");
            }

            string s = sb.ToString().TrimEnd(',');
            Page.ClientScript.RegisterArrayDeclaration(this.Cl ientID + "_theDivs", s);

        }

        protected override bool LoadPostData(string postDataKey, System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection postCollection)
        {
            //wrap the existing loading logic to get the LiostItem value from our hidden field
            return base.LoadPostData(HiddenValueFieldName, postCollection);
        }

        protected override void RenderItem(ListItemType itemType, int repeatIndex, RepeatInfo repeatInfo, HtmlTextWriter writer)
        {
            //render the thing out as a DIV
            ListItem item=this.Items[repeatIndex];
            writer.AddStyleAttribute(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Borde rWidth, "1px");
            writer.AddStyleAttribute(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Borde rColor, "black");
            writer.AddStyleAttribute(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Borde rStyle, "solid");

            writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Value, item.Value);
            writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Onclic k, "setValue(this)");
            writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Id, this.UniqueID + this.IdSeparator + item.Value);

            if (item.Selected)
                writer.AddStyleAttribute(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Backg roundColor, "gray");

            writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Div);
            writer.Write(item.Text);
            writer.RenderEndTag();

        }
    }

- Vishu

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- Vishu

Well, I don't "think" it's an issue, but this is in C# which I'm less familiar with.

In principle though, what you have is the code for a custom class description. Just make the code available to your application (the part I'm a little fuzzy on), and in your VB code behind...

That will create an instance of the list that you can program against. Alternatively, if you're working in C# yourself, you may be able to include the class description code directly in your code behind file. But I don't know the syntax for C#.


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