Passing variables from vbscirpt 2

[pgstein]

I am creating an ASP.NET project, and what I need to do is have the user click a button, he is then prompted with a date, and then he is transfered to the correct page based on his input.

I am using VBScript to generate the input box, but the problem I am having is when I use "window.open" in VBScript, the ASP.NET page just refreshes itself. Is there or fix for this? and if not, can I pass variables from my VBScript back to my ASP.NET page?

Thanks alot, some of my code is posted below, any help is greatly appreciated!
Paul

This is my ASP.NET Code:

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Button1.Attributes.Add("onClick", "return test(""mnthlyaverage.aspx"");")
End Sub

This is my VBScript function:

function test(pagename)
        dim startdate
	dim enddate
        Dim URL

	startdate=InputBox("Enter Start:")
	enddate=InputBox("Enter End:")
	URL = pagename & "?startdate=" & startdate & "&enddate=" & enddate
	window.open(URL)
end function

 

[ca8msm]

If I set the Visible=False property the routine does not work.

That will be because the control does not get rendered to the page at all. An alternative to setting a zero height and width is to add a display attribute to it e.g.

TextBox1.Attributes.Add("style", "display: none;")

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[Isadore]

ca8msm: Wonderful.

 

[pgstein]

thanks both of you, Ill check it out monday morning.

 

[Isadore]

pgstien: as a final (and I really appreciate ca8msm reading through the thread and catching this); another way to impliment his suggestion is as follows This may be obvious but I'll put it up anyway (one I suppose could ask which way might be more efficient? perhaps only a fraction of ms diff).

<asp:Textbox id="Textbox1" runat="server" style="display:none;"/>

 

[ca8msm]

Yes, setting the style in the HTML portion of the page would do exactly the same (as would giving it a CSSClass and setting the display to none in the class). I guess it's just down to personal preference which method you use, but I would probably go with the hidden HTML input.


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