Thanks CrashDome. Luckily my host allows me to switch between .net v1.1 and v2 via my control panel. I switched to V2 and your fix seems to work - thanks!

Unfortunately I now have introduced another problem (which I saw at my previous host when they upgraded their server to V2 with no route back to 1.1) and that is that all my textarea fields are defaulting to 20 cols width despite them being defiend as larger in my template. Any ideas Kelly? I did find this thread which I think is related:

http://www.dnndev.com/Forums/tabid/215/view/topic/forumid/17/postid/7523/Default.aspx

cheers

Rob

Instead of using the columns, try just setting the width.

Best,
Kelly

Hi Kelly

Just tried that with no joy unfortuantely. I tried width="450" instead of cols="40" and it still seems to default to cols=20.

Rob

Hmmm... I'm not able to replicate it. I created a simple, if ugly, form:

<form> format="custom">
<controls>
Text Area 1: <textarea ref="TextArea1" cols="80" rows="10"><label>Text Area 1</label></textarea>
</controls>
</form>

And it works fine for me. It also works if this is an auto-layout form. I've even changed "cols" to "columns" and it still works.

Kelly

Have now also tried columns in last ditch attempt, but get same issue with width defaulting to 20 cols. If I switch back to .NET 1.1 all is fine but the upload control then doesn't work (even with CrashDome's modified dll) which would be a much bigger problem for my client. I guess I'll stick with .NET 2 and narrow texareas for the moment and hope my client is cool with it until CrashDome's fix is rolled into the next .NET 1.1 comaptible version of XMod 3.

Do you think if I upgrade to 4.0 this behaviour might disappear? As ever please let me know if you want me to test any new fixes prior to general release.

Rob

I know you are probably looking for any desperate measures right now because I've been where you've been

Try wrapping the whole form in a DIV or even just the textareas.

It sounds basic and silly but I had a problem that would just not go away for the life of me and someone suggested the above and WHAM! all better!

Extending fileupload

Hi Kelly,
I wondered if you or anyone else can shed some light on this:

I have added an image control to the fileupload CreateChileControls routine -

'add image control
Dim imgUpload As New System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image
imgUpload.Visible = True
imgUpload.ImageUrl = "~/images/folderopen.gif"
pnlUpload.Controls.Add(imgUpload)

Then intention is that I will display different .gif images to indicate success or failure of the upload. As you can see from the code I have specified a default image (all the images I use are standard DNN images held in the images folder.) when the control renders this images is displayed as expected.
However, when the upload succeeds I try to do the following:


imgUpload.ImageUrl = "~/images/green-ok.gif"
imgUpload.Visible = True

lblMessage.Text = _UploadSuccessMsg
lblMessage.Visible = True

BindControl()

At this point I get the following error:

A critical error has occurred.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

It's difficult to diagnose without looking through the code. My initial guess is that you should make imgUpload a class-wide variable and just instantiate it in CreateChildControls (rather than Dim). This will allow that image to be acceessed in your other routines. This is, of course, assuming the imgUpload is the one causing the error.

Best,
Kelly

Thanks for the div tip Kelly - I'm afraid it made no difference to the textarea size though.

Rob

Hi Rob,

Can you post your form definition?

Best,
Kelly

Thanks Kelly,

Basic schoolboy error, it was the Dim!
Doh!

fatgeorge,

Is that code working out for you then? I've been using my custom control for two weeks now and have had no issues.

I remember you were having issues with the code conflicting (i.e. you needed to use FileInfo). Has this been resolved? Is your commercial control working in medium trust mode?

CrashDome

[quote]Posted By CrashDome on 7/18/2006 5:05 PM

fatgeorge,

Is that code working out for you then? I've been using my custom control for two weeks now and have had no issues.

I remember you were having issues with the code conflicting (i.e. you needed to use FileInfo). Has this been resolved? Is your commercial control working in medium trust mode?

CrashDome[/quote]

Well the changes I made are not having any adverse effects, but I didn't have the problem with Medium Trust anyway.
Could you try the latest beta for me and let me know your results?

Kelly,

Could you shed some light on passing form data to the fileupload control?

Should I be able to pass variables or form input values to the control before the form is submitted?

I am wondering if there is anyway I can expose some of the new parameters of my fileupload control in a form.

E.G. the watermark, how could I take the input from a textbox and pass it to the watermark parameter?

Thanks

Hi Kelly,

Just wondering how I can add Required field validation to the fileupload control, any thoughts?

Hey fatgeorge,

You could use the BeforeFormSave() event. In that you're passed the PortalModuleControl. From there you would need to find the control in question using ASP.NET methods and get its value.

Best,
Kelly

fatgeorge,

RE: required field validation, the user should be able to include a < validate > tag. However, it may not be able to properly determine what control to validate if you have a composite control. Another option is to implement a validation in your control. You could set up a child tag (though you shouldn't use < validate > b/c it will conflict with XMod's processing of those tags) or a property on your control. When creating your child controls, you simply add an ASP.NET validation control of the proper type, configured as necessary to validate your control. FYI, you should also provide some mechanism for users to modify the text of the validation message not only for customization, but also for localization.

HTH,
Kelly

[quote]Posted By fatgeorge on 7/19/2006 4:25 AM

[quote]Posted By CrashDome on 7/18/2006 5:05 PM

fatgeorge,

Is that code working out for you then? I've been using my custom control for two weeks now and have had no issues.

I remember you were having issues with the code conflicting (i.e. you needed to use FileInfo). Has this been resolved? Is your commercial control working in medium trust mode?

CrashDome[/quote]

Well the changes I made are not having any adverse effects, but I didn't have the problem with Medium Trust anyway.
Could you try the latest beta for me and let me know your results?[/quote]

Hi CrashDome,
Just wonderd if you had a chance to try the latest fatgeorge fileupload beta in Medium Trust?

Hi All,

I just found the XMod control and can't say enough about it. I have been running into a few issues with the fileupload control so I made a few modifications. I haven't gotten a chance to test all of combinations, but so far everything seems to be working. I figured that this might be a good post of the community. If you add something or find any issues could you post what you've done. It is interesting to follow the lifecycle of this code.

I've uploaded it to the following location: http://www.bahrenburgs.com/DNN/Portals/0/Repository/XFileControl.vb.5f32d9b4-bd71-4077-bcb9-60a9902f3cee.txt


Here are some of the new parameters:

Parameter Name= ShowDelete
Description: Shows/hides delete button
Values: "Yes", "No", "True" or "False if no value is given the delete button will not be displayed

Parameter Name= DeleteSuccess
Description: Delete Success Message
Values: Free Text file, if no text is provided the default of "File Removed" is used

Parameter Name= RefFile
Description: File Name to be deleted
Values: This is required to remove the file. It should be the file name only. The upload directory is used to locate the directory information.

Parameter Name= MaxFileSize
Description: Max File Size To Upload in Bytes
Values: This is optional, an error will be displayed if the file larger then the value provided.

Parameter Name= UploadTextBoxWidth
Description: Sets the textbox width used for the file upload
Values: Optional parameter, provide a number

Best Regards,
Ben

i there,

Could someone help me out? I'm using the custom control to perform file uploads with Xmod. It's all working well

<custom tagprefix="kbcc" name="FileUpload" ref="FileUpload" cssclass="NormalTextBox" cssclasslink="Normal" style="background-color: white;" extensions="jpg,gif,png" uploaddirectory="blah/blah/" noneselected="true" displaymode="uploadandselect" uploadsuccessmsg="Your image has been uploaded" uploadonce="True">
<label>File Upload</label>
</custom>

Now, i've got a javascript function that needs to obtain the filename of the uploaded file. I though it would be somehting like this:
document.getElementById(XModForm{XMOD_ModuleId}.FileUpload).value

However I get a javascript error:
Error: document.getElementById(XModForm969.FileUpload) has no properties
Source File: ....


Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,
Iwan

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