AJAX Control Toolkit

Created Issue: ModalPopup breaking changes

sebastienros — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:57:32 GMT

The last update of Modal Popup Extender has broken its original behavior on some points:
First, he Target control is no more at the expected location in the DOM. Now it is rendered at the end of the Body. I noticed it as I had put a css class on the parent, thus it was not taken into account anymore.

Example:
<div class="parent">
<asp:Panel ID="MyModalPopup" />
</div>

Seconde point, when putting a TextBox in the Popup, and this Popup inside an UpdatePanel, accessing the TextBox.Text property in a postback shows that every text is append in the Text property. For instance, you type A, then push button, type B then push button, then C and push button, accessing the .Text property will give "A, B, C", instead of "C".

By reverting the latest check in, everything was corrected. (the one before 55880 as this check in adds the issues mentioned).

Commented Issue: Calendar Extender pops up whenever Enter key is pressed

ilivewithian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:12 GMT

No matter what control you may be on, even if a modal dialog is up, when the enter key is pressed the calendar extender pops up.
I would like a way to disable this functionality.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: ilivewithian **

This is a real pain, is this likely to be fixed?

Created Issue: Bug at the Sliders

Raupes — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:45:25 GMT

Hi all.

I had a webpage with two sliders. One MultiHandleSlider and one normal Slider. This isn't possible because the Orientation will be registered twice in javascript.
The next bug is if I try to use a MultiHandleSlider with just one slide (because of the above issue) I can't do two way binding to a textbox, so that a change at a textbox will move the slider because some js code tries to fall ToFixed() on a string-variable.

Regards
Bernhard

Reviewed: 30512 (Jul 03, 2009)

Raupes — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:38:08 GMT

Rated 2 Stars (out of 5) - Very buggy. Multi-Slider is quite nice but buggy. This release seems to have lower quality than the older versions had. Keep on doing the good work you did before this release - pls.

Source code checked in, #55880

obout — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:26:34 GMT

Fixed and corrected bug in Editor control: Editor in IE threw exception in some cases of incorrectly manually formed HTML code (via "HTML text" mode)

Created Issue: ReorderList should support Numbered Lists

dmeglio — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:13:05 GMT

It'd be nice if the ReorderList supported OL in addition to UL. You can sorta fake it using CSS, but not really. I wanted to make it begin at 11. Well in Firefox, you can use counter-reset. In IE, you use start="" start="" is ignored when it's a UL tag, only an OL tag will work.

Commented Issue: ModalPopupExtender RepositionMode Issue

e6matt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:09:24 GMT

When setting RepositionMode to "none" (I've actually gone through all four options, just to make sure), it does not scroll if the modalpopup extends beyond the browser viewport. This causes serious issues for users with low screen resolutions as they are unable to close the popup and continue browsing. It seems to work as expected in IE6, however, it does not in FF2 and IE7.
See the following threads:
http://forums.asp.net/p/1195448/2072138.aspx#2072138
http://forums.asp.net/p/1178702/1991761.aspx#1991761
Comments: ** Comment from web user: e6matt **

After looking at the source code, it seems that RepositionMode is pretty much ignored. In ModalPopupBehavior.debug.js, you can replace the existing line 127 with this:

var positioning = this.get_repositionMode();
if ((positioning === AjaxControlToolkit.ModalPopupRepositionMode.RepositionOnWindowScroll) ||
(positioning === AjaxControlToolkit.ModalPopupRepositionMode.RepositionOnWindowResizeAndScroll)) {
this._foregroundElement.style.position = 'fixed';
} else {
this._foregroundElement.style.position = 'absolute';
}

This at least gets it closer to working properly.

While you're in there, you might want to tweak the code that does the yCoord positioning to make sure it's never negative (necessary for us).

Commented Issue: Error Creating Control : My accordion

Nipunu — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:14:09 GMT

hi..
i use ajax control toolkit version 3.0.20820.0 in my vs2008..
'i have placed the accordion inside a tab container'
when i try to put the AccordionPane inside accordion it is shwoing me error as
Error Creating control :MyAccordion
type:
'ajaxcontroltoolkit.accordion does not have a public property named 'accordion extender'

i tried copying the source from the sample and pasted over the code...
when i switch from code view to design view i get this error.
but when i run the application the accordion works...
i wonder hwo to fix this...

here is my source code...

<ajaxToolkit:TabContainer ID="TabContainer1" runat="server" ActiveTabIndex="0">
<ajaxToolkit:TabPanel runat="server" HeaderText="TabPanel1" ID="TabTime">
<HeaderTemplate>
Time
</HeaderTemplate>
<ContentTemplate>
<ajaxToolkit:Accordion ID="MyAccordion" runat="server" SelectedIndex="0"
HeaderCssClass="accordionHeader" HeaderSelectedCssClass="accordionHeaderSelected"
ContentCssClass="accordionContent" FadeTransitions="false" FramesPerSecond="40"
TransitionDuration="250" AutoSize="None" RequireOpenedPane="false" SuppressHeaderPostbacks="true">
<Panes>
<ajaxToolkit:AccordionPane ID="AccordionPane1" runat="server">
<Header><a href="" class="accordionLink">1. Accordion</a></Header>
<Content>
The Accordion is a web control that allows you to provide multiple panes and display them one at a time.
It is like having several <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/CollapsiblePanel/CollapsiblePanel.aspx" Text="CollapsiblePanels" />
where only one can be expanded at a time. The Accordion is implemented as a web control that contains
AccordionPane web controls. Each AccordionPane control has a template for its Header and its Content.
We keep track of the selected pane so it stays visible across postbacks.
</Content>
</ajaxToolkit:AccordionPane>
<ajaxToolkit:AccordionPane ID="AccordionPane2" runat="server">
<Header><a href="" class="accordionLink">2. AutoSize</a></Header>
<Content>
<p>It also supports three AutoSize modes so it can fit in a variety of layouts.</p>
<ul>
<li><b>None</b> - The Accordion grows/shrinks without restriction. This can cause other elements
on your page to move up and down with it.</li>
<li><b>Limit</b> - The Accordion never grows larger than the value specified by its Height
property. This will cause the content to scroll if it is too large to be displayed.</li>
<li><b>Fill</b> - The Accordion always stays the exact same size as its Height property. This
will cause the content to be expanded or shrunk if it isn't the right size.</li>
</ul>
</Content>
</ajaxToolkit:AccordionPane>
<ajaxToolkit:AccordionPane ID="AccordionPane3" runat="server">
<Header><a href="" class="accordionLink">3. Control or Extender</a></Header>
<Content>
The Accordion is written using an extender like most of the other extenders in the AJAX Control Toolkit.
The extender expects its input in a very specific hierarchy of container elements (like divs), so
the Accordion and AccordionPane web controls are used to generate the expected input for the extender.
The extender can also be used on its own if you provide it appropriate input.
</Content>
</ajaxToolkit:AccordionPane>
<ajaxToolkit:AccordionPane ID="AccordionPane4" runat="server">
<Header><a href="" class="accordionLink">4. What is ASP.NET AJAX?</a></Header>
<Content>

</Content>
</ajaxToolkit:AccordionPane>
</Panes>
</ajaxToolkit:Accordion>
</ContentTemplate>
</ajaxToolkit:TabPanel>
</ajaxToolkit:TabContainer>
Comments: ** Comment from web user: Nipunu **

Put Accodion control inside an UpdatePanel and add ContentTemplate in side the update pannel. Following is thr code,

<cc1:TabContainer....>
<cc1:TabPanel ID="TabPanel1"...>
<ContentTemplate...>
</ContentTemplate...>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel2" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<cc1:Accordion ID="Accordion2"
.......
......
.......

Hope this helps you....

Created Issue: ComboBox textbox Skin conflict

MarkEvans — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:57:41 GMT

Can we change how this control is being rendered. Rather than using .Net controls to build the final html, can this control be changed to actually just render the html rather than using child asp controls. The reason I ask is because if you have a default skin set for textboxes and dropdownlists to make them the same width, the combobox will always implement the textbox width and as such you cannot actually set the width on the control, even if you set it explicitly.

Created Issue: ComboBox not tracking view state

markusg — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:11:52 GMT

The TextBox control that is created dynamically inside the ComboBox control seems to be loosing its settings like Height and Width, because they are not serialized into the view state.
At a first glance, it seems like the TextBox is added to the Controls collection way too late (after the Height and Width setters have been called) and therefore view state tracking has not been enabled for the TextBox yet.

Commented Issue: Problems with CalendarExtender on IE8

nelis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:27:33 GMT

If one creates a basic page with a TextBox and a CalendarExtender and views it using IE8, the calendar popup will show up over part of the text box, and the "previous month" and "next month" buttons in the popup will act as if the user clicked the title instead and "go up" to the year level. Below is a simple page I have created that demonstrates these problems:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebApplication._Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<ajaxtoolkit:ToolkitScriptManager ID="ToolkitScriptManager1" runat="Server" />
<asp:TextBox ID="DateTextBox" runat="server" />
<ajaxtoolkit:CalendarExtender runat="server" TargetControlID="DateTextBox" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

However, these problems do NOT appear on the sample page with IE8. After much digging, I have discovered that two CSS settings seem to correct these problems. The following is the exact same page as above, but with two CSS settings that make these problems go away:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebApplication._Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin: 0; /* Fixes the positioning of the calendar popup */
}
div.ajax__calendar_title {
border: none; /* Fixes the "previous" and "next" buttons in the popup title */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<ajaxtoolkit:ToolkitScriptManager ID="ToolkitScriptManager1" runat="Server" />
<asp:TextBox ID="DateTextBox" runat="server" />
<ajaxtoolkit:CalendarExtender runat="server" TargetControlID="DateTextBox" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Comments: ** Comment from web user: nelis **

Seems not only the margin of the body tag is involved. Margins of DIVs also affect the getLocation result

Commented Issue: HoverMenuExender: Error thrown for Panels set to Visible after Databind

_ivan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:58:48 GMT

To reproduce the error:

1. Add a Gridview and assign it a DataSourceId (so it automatically databinds), e.g. using an SQLDataSource
2. Under the Gridview, put a Panel and set its Visible property to FALSE.
3. Inside the Panel, add a HoverMenuExtender, an asp:Image control and a <div>. Set the TargetControlID and PopupControlID to the Image and DIV.
4. Open up code-behind and in the DataBound event of the GridView, set the Visible property of the Panel to TRUE.
5. Run the code and the following error appears:

Extender control 'HoverMenuExtender1' is not a registered extender control. Extender controls must be registered using RegisterExtenderControl() before calling RegisterScriptDescriptors().

Probably not just HoverMenuExender. See this unresolved forum post:

http://forums.asp.net/p/1078866/1787061.aspx
Comments: ** Comment from web user: _ivan **

Actually I am regestering Extender in PreRenderComplete event handler not in PreRender as I said earlier.

Commented Issue: HoverMenuExender: Error thrown for Panels set to Visible after Databind

_ivan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:47:25 GMT

I get a similar error for Calendar extender in May 2009 build of AjaxToolKit.
I am creating views dynamically and adding controls and CalendarExtender in couple of places. The first time it generates properly. After calendar is used (date is picked) it throws this error. I tried registering control using RegisterExtenderControl() in Page_PreRender but then I get a different error say that Control with the same Id already exists, while it does not. I found that some time in 2007 it was a common issue for some extenders, but in later releases it was fix by adding popupBehavior.dispose() in dispose:function() of the extender. I checked source and this piece is present for CalendarExtender. The view that is render is visible, I am adding elements only when view becomes visible. So forcing visibilty to true would not help. Any other ideas?

Commented Issue: Tabs Fix issue "owner must be set before initialize"

mholzma — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:46:39 GMT

It's possible that the Tab Panels are loaded before the Tab Container initializes, it may depends on the number of control they contains or simply because your connection is slow and timing desync happens. To fix this i've made a modify to the source code of Tabs Control @ atlas.

The attachment contains the fixed files.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: mholzma **

We are still having this sporadic problem even after pulling the latest AjaxControlToolkit with the fix referenced in 10598. Please reopen the issue.

Commented Issue: Ajax Treeview

sledgehammer777 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:56:46 GMT

I'd really like to see a dynamic treeview like the one that is powering the MSDN library ToC.
My only request is that branches get loaded when you open a node because if you have on nodes and subnodes the "static" ASP.NET treeview becomes a bit heavy both as download size and as javascript memory usage.
I found a lot of treeview on the net, but none is an ASP.NET Ajax extender
Comments: ** Comment from web user: sledgehammer777 **

It doesn't even need data binding for a first release, just a decent client-side object model and load-on-demand node population. Just build it!

Created Issue: Accordian Poor Quality Rendering issues in IE7 & IE8

MarkEvans — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:42:38 GMT

When the accordian is used and viewed using IE (7&8) the rendering quality is very poor. It is fine when the Accordian Pane is first displayed (expanded) but once a pane is collapsed and then expanded again, the rendering quality is very low. It would appear from first inspection that the transparency is not being rendered correctly. PNG images loose their transparency and the text looks incredibly blocky. Rendering in Firefox is fine so this may point to a bug in IE rather than the control.

Patch Uploaded: #3223

sumanlucid — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:36:20 GMT

SumanLucid has uploaded a patch.

Description:
AjaxControlToolkit bugs solved
1. NumericUpDown enable or disable problem is solved
1.1 NumericUpDown AutoPostBack problem.
2. MultiHandleSlider's all possible bugs solved
( Bugs include 1. We cannot use SliderExtender and MultiHandleSlider at the same webpage
2. MultiHandleSlider when used inside the usercontrol is not displaying its target handles
3. Maximum and minimum of the MultiHandleSlider when changed discretely makes the multiHandleslider's bounds to increase indefenitely.)

Commented Issue: TabControl - owner must be set before initialize error.

mholzma — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:31:30 GMT

This only happens in the hosted site.
http://forums.asp.net/t/1099039.aspx
Comments: ** Comment from web user: mholzma **

This still seems to be an issue even with the May release of the AjaxToolkit. I still have a TabContainer that occasionally doesn't get rendered, causing the TabControls to not appear. This is an abomination.

Created Issue: HTMLEditor include obout spell checker

esun — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:02:28 GMT

Hello, could you guys include the spell checker functionality within the HTMLeditor that was shipped may of 2009? I have been using FreeTextBox until I found out about Obout. However I would like to use HTMLEditor instead of obout as the assembly is pretty light weight.

Created Issue: Test Work Item

AjaxTK — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:41:30 GMT

Test of feature