I'm looking for the way to stop a postback event's method from fireing.
Let's say I have an ImageButton and a Button. Both with their own onClick events set. During a postback I want to arbitrarily cancel the controls "on click" event from fireing before it hits it.
So, If someone clicks on my IMageButton, I might want to say in the PageLoad; "Ok, continue processing this page like it was just a regular postback without hitting the "onImageButton_Click" event.
Is this possible?
Seeing ASP.NET knows what control initiated the postback, and where it needs to go after the page load, this should be a peice of cake.... But I have searched and searched. Not luck.
Any thoughts?
The Killer Ninja Coding Monkeys thank those that mark helpful posts as answers.
Page_Load fires before the button click, so my thought is have a private variable as such:
private bool _doProcessing = false;
In page load, have your logic to determine whether you need the button click, and in the button handler, do:
if (!_doProcessing)
return;
which exits the routine and avoids processing the button click.
Brian
"Trust in the Lord and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely. Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires" (Psalm 37: 3-4).
That is possible, the boolean would need to be on the root page. I'm unfortunately using the WebSite project which doesn't allow me to directly cast the page as controls/parents in different directories... but I do have a base "baesPage" which all pages
inherit that I could cast my page as that, and use the property on that page.
The only problem with that is on every event I'll need a if(!_doProcessing), which is why I was wondering if I could find where ASP.NET holds the events so i could just say to the postback event "DIE DIE DIE!". :)
If I can't you're sugestion is a solid one. Thanks.
events
The Killer Ninja Coding Monkeys thank those that mark helpful posts as answers.
I believe button events use the __EVENTTARGET form property to store the reference to the control that cause the event. If you wipe that out; though the reason I wonder about that is because that property gets set as the postback occurs, and so I think
the server knows about it before you would be able to do anything about it. I don't know if there is another way.
Brian
"Trust in the Lord and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely. Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires" (Psalm 37: 3-4).
Page has button 'A' and 'B'. User clicks 'A'. Postback code begins to execute for 'A'. You want to prevent user from clicking 'B' before 'A' completes its postback? Am I understanding you correctly?
Pretty much I have code that runs every time a postback/ajax calback takes place. I am looking for a way to keep the postback, but stop any events from the sender from fireing. ex. If someone changes a dropdown list with Autopostback=true on it, I would
like to find the place where that event is held and stop it from processing... basically jsut do the page lifecycle over again without going to any Events from any control.
The Killer Ninja Coding Monkeys thank those that mark helpful posts as answers.
At the bottom of your Page_Load event you could add something like this:
if (Page.IsPostBack)
{
this.Button1.Click -= new EventHandler(Button1_Click);
this.DropDownList1.SelectedIndexChanged -= new EventHandler(DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged);
}
Since Page_Load occurs just before the control events fire, it should stop the control event code from running but still allow the Page_Load method to execute. The removal of the event methods would have to be added for each control that causes a postback.
For a simpler example that could be true. However my pages are dynamically created with a wide array of controls and postbacks. A user could say he wants 500 dropdown lists on a page, and all of them to have a postback event.
In some cases, I want to (on the page load/init/pre init) to take all those "control events/Page events" and delete them.
The Killer Ninja Coding Monkeys thank those that mark helpful posts as answers.
RTernier
Contributor
4755 Points
1139 Posts
Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 03:44 PM|LINK
I'm looking for the way to stop a postback event's method from fireing.
Let's say I have an ImageButton and a Button. Both with their own onClick events set. During a postback I want to arbitrarily cancel the controls "on click" event from fireing before it hits it.
So, If someone clicks on my IMageButton, I might want to say in the PageLoad; "Ok, continue processing this page like it was just a regular postback without hitting the "onImageButton_Click" event.
Is this possible?
Seeing ASP.NET knows what control initiated the postback, and where it needs to go after the page load, this should be a peice of cake.... But I have searched and searched. Not luck.
Any thoughts?
My Site | My Examples | My Blog
bmains
All-Star
28851 Points
5839 Posts
MVP
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 03:49 PM|LINK
Hey,
Page_Load fires before the button click, so my thought is have a private variable as such:
private bool _doProcessing = false;
In page load, have your logic to determine whether you need the button click, and in the button handler, do:
if (!_doProcessing)
return;
which exits the routine and avoids processing the button click.
"Trust in the Lord and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely. Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires" (Psalm 37: 3-4).
RTernier
Contributor
4755 Points
1139 Posts
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 03:59 PM|LINK
That is possible, the boolean would need to be on the root page. I'm unfortunately using the WebSite project which doesn't allow me to directly cast the page as controls/parents in different directories... but I do have a base "baesPage" which all pages inherit that I could cast my page as that, and use the property on that page.
The only problem with that is on every event I'll need a if(!_doProcessing), which is why I was wondering if I could find where ASP.NET holds the events so i could just say to the postback event "DIE DIE DIE!". :)
If I can't you're sugestion is a solid one. Thanks.
events
My Site | My Examples | My Blog
bmains
All-Star
28851 Points
5839 Posts
MVP
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 07:12 PM|LINK
Hey,
I believe button events use the __EVENTTARGET form property to store the reference to the control that cause the event. If you wipe that out; though the reason I wonder about that is because that property gets set as the postback occurs, and so I think the server knows about it before you would be able to do anything about it. I don't know if there is another way.
"Trust in the Lord and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely. Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires" (Psalm 37: 3-4).
RTernier
Contributor
4755 Points
1139 Posts
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 07:18 PM|LINK
Hmm, Yea. Looking at that property it's always "". IT's kinda sad I can't interact with the event process at all to change what's going to get hit :|
My Site | My Examples | My Blog
jamezw
Participant
1211 Points
190 Posts
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 07:42 PM|LINK
Page has button 'A' and 'B'. User clicks 'A'. Postback code begins to execute for 'A'. You want to prevent user from clicking 'B' before 'A' completes its postback? Am I understanding you correctly?
RTernier
Contributor
4755 Points
1139 Posts
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 07:46 PM|LINK
The 2 buttons were just an example.
Pretty much I have code that runs every time a postback/ajax calback takes place. I am looking for a way to keep the postback, but stop any events from the sender from fireing. ex. If someone changes a dropdown list with Autopostback=true on it, I would like to find the place where that event is held and stop it from processing... basically jsut do the page lifecycle over again without going to any Events from any control.
My Site | My Examples | My Blog
MSchumacher
Member
20 Points
18 Posts
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 08:40 PM|LINK
Hi,
My solution is maybe too simple, but can you use the OnClientClick event. Then you may use javascript ...
jamezw
Participant
1211 Points
190 Posts
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 09:17 PM|LINK
At the bottom of your Page_Load event you could add something like this:
if (Page.IsPostBack) { this.Button1.Click -= new EventHandler(Button1_Click); this.DropDownList1.SelectedIndexChanged -= new EventHandler(DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged); }Since Page_Load occurs just before the control events fire, it should stop the control event code from running but still allow the Page_Load method to execute. The removal of the event methods would have to be added for each control that causes a postback.
RTernier
Contributor
4755 Points
1139 Posts
Re: Stop a postback from hitting the postback event
Oct 09, 2007 10:31 PM|LINK
For a simpler example that could be true. However my pages are dynamically created with a wide array of controls and postbacks. A user could say he wants 500 dropdown lists on a page, and all of them to have a postback event.
In some cases, I want to (on the page load/init/pre init) to take all those "control events/Page events" and delete them.
My Site | My Examples | My Blog