Creating a control that pops up a window

[Faizan Ahmed]

Hello all,

I am developing a custom grid control. I want to add the filter feature in
the columns of the grid, lets say when the user clicks the column header(or
any image on header) a new form pop-ups asking the user of the filtering
criteria.. when the user enters the criteria and press OK on the pop-up form
the grid control should refresh itself to show only the filtered data.. I
know that its not a good practice to use Pop-ups in web forms but this is a
must-have requirement. The problem i m facing is that, how can i embed a web
form (that will pop-up) in a server control? i wonder if it is even
possible?? if it is not that how can i embed a window written in DHTML in
that control? and one more question, how will the pop-up window notify the
control when it is closed?
Any help would be highly appreciated..

Thanks Mr. John Saunders for ur help with my posts earlier

 

[John Saunders]

Hello all,

I am developing a custom grid control. I want to add the filter feature in
the columns of the grid, lets say when the user clicks the column
header(or
any image on header) a new form pop-ups asking the user of the filtering
criteria.. when the user enters the criteria and press OK on the pop-up
form
the grid control should refresh itself to show only the filtered data.. I
know that its not a good practice to use Pop-ups in web forms but this is
a
must-have requirement. The problem i m facing is that, how can i embed a
web
form (that will pop-up) in a server control? i wonder if it is even
possible?? if it is not that how can i embed a window written in DHTML in
that control? and one more question, how will the pop-up window notify the
control when it is closed?
Any help would be highly appreciated..

This is an area of JavaScript in which I am not an expert. Someone else may
be able to point you to information on how to do pop-up windows in general,
and how to make them work with .NET in particular.

Note that one alternative to a pop-up window is to "pop up" a div from your
same form. The div would start off as invisible, but when the header is
clicked, you could make the div visible and make it float over the form.
This div could contain the filter criteria and Close and OK buttons.
Clicking OK could post the criteria back to the server.

Again, I've never done this, but I've seen others talk about floating divs.
I know of no reason that this div couldn't contain Label, TextBox, and
Button controls.

Thanks Mr. John Saunders for ur help with my posts earlier

You're welcome.


John Saunders