Using TextBox.Text

[Steve S]

Heres what I want to do...User types into a texbox, clicks a button, the
button saves that text to a file. The problem is that when I click the
submit button, any changes made to the textbox are lost, and it reloads what
was previously there.

Any ideas?

try
{

StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(sVirtualDir + @"\News.txt",false);

sw.Write(TextBox1.Text);

sw.Flush();

sw.Close();

}

 

[Steve S]

It's in the click event of the button. Below is the basic idea...


private void OnLoad(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

if(sender.GetType()==typeof(System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox))

{

TextBox temp = (TextBox)sender;

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(sVirtualDir + @"\News.txt");

temp.Text = sr.ReadToEnd();

sr.Close();

}

}

private void Submit_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

try

{

StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(sVirtualDir + @"\News.txt",false);

sw.Write(TextBox1.Text);

sw.Flush();

sw.Close();

}

catch(HttpException ex)

{

Response.Write(ex.Message);

}

}

 

[Jim Blizzard [MSFT]]

Are you pre-populating TextBox1 with something? In your first post you
said, "when I click the submit button, any changes made to the textbox are
lost, and it reloads what was previously there."

How / when does the "previous" text get put in TextBox1?

Also, what are you doing with the "temp" textbox in the page_load event
handler?

bliz
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[Steve S]

Sorry, Im new to ASP, but why does determining whether or not it's the first
run matter? When I click submit, is it not able to locally grab whats in
the textbox? If thats the case, can it be done somehow locally w/out having
to go back to the server...

 

[Steve S]

Ahhh, I C. Thanks

Steve

Hi Steve,

You need to check to see if it's a postback. (It's a postback when the user
clicks the submit button). The Page_Load event is always fired before any
Button event handling. As a result, by the time you get to your button
click handler, you've already wiped out the text in the textbox in the page
load.

If it's a postback, don't populate the textbox... it contains the value from
the user.

If it's not a postback, populate the textbox yourself...

See the code snipit from "MS NEWS" below.

Hope this helps!
bliz

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[Jim Blizzard [MSFT]]

You're welcome. Thanks for using the newsgroups!
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