Hi,

I have an webpage that monitors a com port for value from a weighbridge scale. Sometimes the user needs to manually enter values and override what the scale is sending in.
In the event the user manually enters numbers, I would like the EO dialog to popup to prompt for a username/password as a clerk is not allowed to manually enter the weight and an admin is needed to provide credentials.

So the typical path would be...

User manually enters weight.
Submit button is clicked. Javascript checks to see where the weight came from, it from the component monitoring the comport, then allow the submit and post back to the server.
If the value was a manual entry (I have logic for checking this already), the show the dialog. If the user clicks OK, true is returns to the JS function, and the submit continues (credentials checked at the server on postback). If cancel is clicked in the dialog, the submit process halts.

Does this make sense, and is it possible?

Ye.. I do need more help. I cannot hook the ShowButton property of the dialog as I do not know if the dialog must be shown until the user clicks the page "Submit" button.

I have a JS function that is called when the user clicks Submit. In this function I check to see if the value came from the weighbridge or was a manual entry. If weighbridge, I just return true and postback continues.
If it is a manual entry, I need to be able to display the dialog from the JS function, wait for the result of the dialog (submit/cancel) then continue to postback or not depending on the result of the dialog.

So... I need to be able to call a show method or something in the EO dialog. This I don't know how to do. I then need to be able to test the result of showing the dialog to determine if the JS function must return true or false. This I also don't know how to do.

I must be really stupid here guys...

I cannot use the Dialog ID as it has a ClientID when sent to the browser, so doing the following...

This is the JS function

function Capture(weightTextboxID, adminDialog)
{
try
{
var dialog = document.getElementById(adminDialog);
dialog.show(true);

// Need to test the result of dialog.show... How?

return false;
}
catch (ex)
{
alert(ex.description);
return false;
}
}

Then the C# code that creates the OnClick event hander for the submit button

SubmitButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return Capture('" + WeightTextBox.ClientID + "', '" + adminLoginDialog.ClientID + "');");

adminLoginDialog is the server ID of the dialog I am trying to get displayed.

When I click submit, the function is called, adminDialog is not null so should work, but I get "object doesn't support this property or method" displayed, so think it does not know how to do the Show thing.

Please note my comment in the JS code where I need to test the result of show. Still don't know how to do this. Does it return true/false?

GREAT!!! That works... Thanks!

Now the very tricky part :)

How to show the dialog in JS, and test the result? I understand I can hook a "Accept" client side event, but that confuses me. My Capture function must always return false then to prevent the postback, and in the "Accept" event I need to re-initiate the postback. Seems messy, and I don't know how anyway.

Is there no way to simply show the dialog and wait for it to close to test the result?
IE:

var dialog = eo_GetObject("adminLoginDialog");
var result = dialog.show(true);

Then test result to see how to handle this?

Ye... ALL comments did help. I have it working well and did as suggested..

If the user needs to enter credentials, the Capture function returns false and halts the postback. The Submit button in the dialog then handles the postback and the common Save method is called in the code behind, and it is working really well.

Thank-you so much for all your help, and in particular, your super speedy responses. What I thought would be a nightmare to implement is working very elegantly and is sure to wow the users.

Good going EO team. You'll have my support forever.