Our application has a form and a list on the same page.  Many users make updates, so the list uses a timer to refresh every thirty seconds.  My problem is that if someone is typing in the form when the list checks for an update, their textbox loses focus, often mid-sentence.  Any suggestions as to how I can allow users to work in their part of the page entering data without the AsyncPosbacks messing up their form entry?

Thanks,

- Brad

Ensure that the UpdatePanel only wraps the list and not the text box as well and I think you should be ok.

Dropped the DataGrid and FormView into separate updatepanels, and the same still occurs.  (Only trigger ties the formview Insert button to the DataGrid panel.)

Any more ideas?

Thanks,

- Brad

I came across this scenario myself and never did find a solution using the timer control. However, I did solve the problem using javascript to perform the update.

JZ

Good to know I'm not alone in this.  I have bigger fish to fry at the moment, but if I get time, I may go ahead and write a manual update in JavaScript.

Thanks

Hi,

You can put TextBox into another updatepanel and have both of these updatepanels UpdateMode="Conditional".

Please check this thread: http://forums.asp.net/t/1099345.aspx

Well there is your answer from Vince Xu, no idea how I missed that one.

You should disable the timer when textbox focus and enable back after textbox blur

This post will help you

http://mattberseth.com/blog/2008/05/bug_bash_enablingdisabling_the.html 

That is a great idea--it never even crossed my mind.  I can't thank you enough!

I couldn't get the version in the link to work, but I did another (simpler) approach, and it works like a charm.

I dropped the following into my Page_Load event:

strJavaScript = "//Start and stop the timer so the text boxes don't lose focus" & vbCrLf & _
"function startTimer() {" & _
" var timer = $find(""" & Timer1.ClientID & """);" & _
" timer._startTimer();" & _
"}" & _
"function stopTimer() {" & _
" var timer = $find(""" & Timer1.ClientID & """);" & _
"timer._stopTimer();" & _
"}</script>"

ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType, "TimerScript", strJavaScript)

TextBox.Attributes.Add("onFocus", "stopTimer()")
TextBox.Attributes.Add("onBlur", "startTimer()")

Haha at last, you mark me as answered. I know the solution about this issue from Matt post is the best one.
This is the best Idea, no matter how you fix it.

You and matt using different method but same idea.

Thanks to Matt.