Making Text Flash in a gridview

Andrew.Berry · February 14th, 2008, 05:06 AM

Hi all. I have a gridview.

If a job is within 4 hours of completion, I need to make text flash. It's an IE based browser, so no blink in css unfortunately.

How do I call an external javascript file (ie blink.js) in my c# code?

weicco · February 14th, 2008, 09:47 AM

Well you add link to it and call function from code-behind like this:

Code:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Type type = GetType();

    if (!ClientScript.IsClientScriptIncludeRegistered(type, "blink"))
    {
        ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptInclude(type, "blink", "blink.js");
    }
    if (!ClientScript.IsStartupScriptRegistered(type, "enable_blink"))
    {
        ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(type, "enable_blink", "enable_blink()", true);
    }
}

dparsons · February 14th, 2008, 09:57 AM

Andrew, I think you described your problem incorrectly.

Weicco, what I *think* he wants is how to attach some sort of onMouseOver code to his Anchor tags inside his gridview at runtime based on a conditional.

Andrew, what you should do is handel the RowDataBound event of your girdview, something like this:

protected void gv_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{
   LinkButton lb = (LinkButton)e.Row.FindControl("lb1");
   if(<somecondition> == true)
   {
     lb.Attributes.Add("onMouseOver", "blink();");
   }
}
}

Obviously i am using onMouseOver as an example that could be changed to anything.

hth.

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