How to do pop up windows in .NET

[bigfoot]

Another newbe question...

On my grid, my manager wants to have it when you click on the select button for a row in the grid, to pop up a new editing window.

What this will give us is multiple edit windows at once, with the ability to cut and paste from one to the other.

Each window will have a cancel and an update button. I figured on calling the same code from each with a key pair that will do the update. It should be no problems.

I can do it in javascript but I have not in asp yet. A redirect just gives me a new page but not the pop up type of overlay.
I was looking around and all I saw was javascript but no .net server side stuff for this.

This is an Intranet project, so we control any anti popup code in the browsers.

 

[jbenson001]

You can't do a pop-up server side. You will have to use javascript. You can use RegisterClientScript() to emit the js to the page.

 

[bigfoot]

So I'll have to write the javascript in the second window to pop it up as a window when it's called?
Will that work.

I think this manager of mine really wants a desktop app.

 

[jbenson001]

Actually you want the window to pop-up when you click a button in the grid, correct? Then use the Attribues.Add() method of the button to add an onclick event to the button.

 

[bigfoot]

Can I still pass data to the popup'd page to read from the database?

 

[jbenson001]

You can pass data using a query string.

 

[bigfoot]

Thanks for the help.

I read up on how to attach a js to the button but how do you get hold of the Select button to add the js to it?

 

[jbenson001]

On the rowdatabound event, get a refernce to the button using findcontrol() and then add the js to it.