How to wire to buttons together to display the same message

[taree]

I have two button in my page and I am using the below code and I am just wondering if there is a way to wire the two buttons together and when I click one of them I want both to be disabled and show "processing please wait..." message. thank you for the help

 Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        btnSelect.Attributes.Add("onclick", ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(btnSelect, "") _
                          & ";this.value='Processing Please wait...';this.disabled = true;this.style.backgroundColor = '';")
        Button2.Attributes.Add("onclick", ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(Button2, "") _
                         & ";this.value='Processing Please wait...';this.disabled = true;this.style.backgroundColor = '';")
        lblError.Visible = False
        If Not IsPostBack Then
            LetBind()
            lblTody.Text = Servertime.CurrentTime
        End If
        BindData()
    End Sub



 Protected Sub btnSelect_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSelect.Click, Button2.Click

        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)
        ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(Me.GetType, _
            "reset", "document.getElementById('" & btnSelect.ClientID & "').disabled=false;", True)
        ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(Me.GetType, _
            "reset", "document.getElementById('" & Button2.ClientID & "').disabled=false;", True)

 

[jmeckley]

1st problem. you are writing the client script in the button click event. the user will never get a disabled button or wait message.

instead you need to do this on the client using js. i would recommend jquery/prototype/dojo to write the js code.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[taree]

Hi Jason,

Actuall it is working fine the only problem is I want both to display the wait message at the same time. otherwis, when i click one by one it displays the message....

 

[jmeckley]

your right, overlooked the page load.

I still recommend a js library rather than litter the server code with client code. the code behind should not care what the markup does, it should only push/pull data. what the makup does while the data is transferred is irrelevant.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.