I have created an AJAX-driven site and am currently using your ASPxLoadingPanel in place of the UpdateProgress control and it works great. I have a few instances within my site where a user will click a particular button that will unhide an ASPxRoundPanel that contains a label control and a few button controls and prompts them with a few options via an additional button click.
My problem is that the user can still click anything on screen with that ASPxRoundPanel visible and I would rather they not be able to. Of course, my panel includes a "Cancel" button that hides the panel if the user chooses to cancel the action.
I thought I could maybe use your ASPxPopupControl since that has a Modal property, but it doesn't appear that you can add controls within its control content.
It would be nice if you could add a boolean property called "ModalWhenVisible" that defaulted to False for your panel controls. This way, if the property is set to True when my Panel is visible, everything else on screen is disabled. When defaulted to False, the control acts as it currently does.
Thanks
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Hello Joseph,
Thank you for the suggestion. However, unfortunately, I don't understand your layout, and the task you are trying to implement.
Actually, the ASPxPopupControl is a perfect choice for modal windows: Modal Window. You can put controls into its content, and they will do exactly what you want.
Why do you want to use the modal ASPxRoundPanel (or ASPxPanel)? They weren't designed to simulate the ASPxPopupControl behavior.
By the way, if your popup control closes when you click outside its borders, I suggest that you define the ASPxPopupControl.CloseAction property and set it equal to "None".
Thanks,
Vest
OK, I thought I explained myself fairly well in what I am doing, but here I go again. User clicks a button to perform an action. On that button click, a panel unhides with a label with text telling them to click one button from another set of buttons within the panel to continue. Basically, it is an option to retract or remove a request or cancel. All of these button clicks within the panel eventually lead to a hiding of the panel again.
With that panel visible, since it isn't modal, the user can click on any area of the screen to doing something else, which I would prefer they didn't have the option to do so. I played around with your popup control some more and was able to get controls into the control content section, but the popup action is driven by a mouse click or mouseover, etc. So I set the popupaction to be on a mouse click of my button that originally unhid my panel during the AJAX postback. Now when I click that button to see the popup, everything grays out on screen but the popup control is not visible. When I tested this out on a blank aspx page with no AJAX update panel, it worked fine.
Does the popup control itself need to be outside the AJAX update panel? Also, how do I get this popup control to close via any of my button clicks witin the popup control itself? Does the popup control offer client side script to hide it like the ASPxLoading panel so that I can hide it during the ScriptManager "EndRequest" process? If that is the case, the popup control has to be back inside the AJAX update panel, correct?
Please advise.
Furthermore, I would only want the popup control to display on the click of a button when I have a grid row selected. I'm not seeing how this could be accomplished. All this I can figure out via an AJAX process from the button click.
I may just have to scrap the whole idea and leave it as is. If the user clicks on something else while the panel is visible, so be it.
Hello Joseph,
I understood your idea. It seems you don't use all the ASPxPopupControl features in your scenario. That is why you've decided to suggest a new feature for the ASPxRoundPanel.
Actually the ASPxRoundPanel wasn't developed as a modal panel, because a modal feature is used for popups, rather than for panels. I think we'll have to decline your suggestion. However, I'll try to give you a valuable solution:
The ASPxPopupControl can be shown many times: How to show the ASPxPopupControl (client-side code), How to show and hide a popup window via server side code (server-side code).
The popup can also be placed into the ASP:UpdatePanel, but there is a little suggestion: you should manually (or via the client-side code) close the ASPxPopupControl before you perform a postback. If you want to prevent a popup from being moved or closed, you should use these properties: ASPxPopupControl.AllowDragging, ASPxPopupControl.CloseAction.
In other words, you should try to make a round panel modal, rather than making a modal ASPxPopupControl behave as an unmovable panel.
Thanks,
Vest