Adding Event Handler to Dynamically added Controls

[John Kilgo]

I'm dynamically adding literals and .net controls to a Placeholder control. Everything works to a point(my literals are added and my controls are added). But I need to add an event handler, specificall for a checkbox. My code is something like this:
litText = new Literal();
litText.ID = "anID";
phContent.Controls.Add(litText);
litText.Text = "Some Text";
CheckBox myCheckBox = new CheckBox();
myCheckBox.ID = "aCheckBox";
myCheckBox.TextAlign = TextAlign.Right;
myCheckBox.Text = "SomeText";
phContent.Controls.Add(myCheckBox);

Then I'm trying to do something like the following:
myCheckBox.CheckedChanged += new System.EventHandler(myCheckBox_CheckedChanged);

It burps with the message "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MainPetitionDynamic\WebForm1.aspx.cs(34): The name 'myCheckBox_CheckedChanged' does not exist in the class or namespace 'MainPetitionDynamic.WebForm1'

I've a couple of other syntaxes but nothing seems to work. How can I add the event handler dynamically.

Thanks,
John

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[Brock Allen]

This should work as long as you have a method called "myCheckBox_CheckedChanged"
in the context where you're code is executing. So if this code below is inside
your page, then as long as the page has "myCheckBox_CheckedChanged" (with
the correct signature) then it should work. Do you have any more info?

 

[John Kilgo]

For now at least I'm executing this code in the Page_Load event. I'm not sure how I can add a method (dynamically) within that block of code. By "method" do you mean the usual "private void myCheckBox_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) type of method? I'm doing this dynamically because until I read the database I'm not going to know how many checkbox controls I must add. They will all require CheckedChanged methods.

Thanks,
John

This should work as long as you have a method called "myCheckBox_CheckedChanged"
in the context where you're code is executing. So if this code below is inside
your page, then as long as the page has "myCheckBox_CheckedChanged" (with
the correct signature) then it should work. Do you have any more info?

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[Brock Allen]

You must have a method pre-declared to do what you're looking to do. It's
ok to have all 30+ checkboxes have the same change event though -- the first
parameter (object sender) helps you determine which control raised the event.
So you'll have to do something dynamically to "do the right thing", whatever
that is for your dynamic checkbox page. HTH

 

[John Kilgo]

Brock, thank you. The following code works! -- John

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
CheckBox myCheckBox = new CheckBox();
myCheckBox.ID = "myCheckBox";
myCheckBox.Text = "Enter different sentence for each count?";
myCheckBox.TextAlign = TextAlign.Right;
myCheckBox.AutoPostBack = true;
myCheckBox.CheckedChanged += new System.EventHandler(Checked_Changed);
phContent.Controls.Add(myCheckBox);
}

private void Checked_Changed (object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string strControlID = ((CheckBox)sender).ID;
if (strControlID == "myCheckBox")
{
Response.Write("Found it");
}
}

You must have a method pre-declared to do what you're looking to do. It's
ok to have all 30+ checkboxes have the same change event though -- the first
parameter (object sender) helps you determine which control raised the event.
So you'll have to do something dynamically to "do the right thing", whatever
that is for your dynamic checkbox page. HTH

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