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jhermiz

3564 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 07:56:59
I cant understand this user control I keep working on.
All I'm doing is creating a user control and I want the button to have a calendar gif on it. I tried everything and nothing seems to work to put this image on a button.

I do not just want to use an image, I really need this to be a button with an image on it.

I have zipped it up can someone take a look? Just add these files to a project and drag and drop the user control. If anyone has any ideas please help me this is urgent :(.

Willing to pay 1 whole dollar

http://www.jakrauseinc.com/jhermiz/calendar.zip

MichaelP
Jedi Yak

2489 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 09:36:08
Let me give it a shot...

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MichaelP
Jedi Yak

2489 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 09:43:39
Ahhh got it!
You made it a regular HTML button. You need to make it an Image button and tie the Javascript call to that button.

<asp:ImageButton id="ImageButton1" runat="server" ImageUrl="calendar.gif"></asp:ImageButton>

I'm still trying to remember how to make that ASP ImageButton call a client side script. I KNOW it can be done, but I can't remember how.

Michael

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jhermiz

3564 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 09:45:19
Ya but an imagebutton doesnt have a button on it its just an image...

I cant use it...I need to have a button background on it.
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MichaelP
Jedi Yak

2489 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 09:50:38
Ahh, I found it.

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/27/135706.aspx

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
ImageButton1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "OnClick();return false;")
End Sub

Michael

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MichaelP
Jedi Yak

2489 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 09:52:47
Ohhh you want a button, with an image in the middle of it.

Methinks you should use an Image button, and make the image look the way you want it to look (IE, draw teh button around the calendar image). I don't think I've ever seen a "button" with an image on it.

Michael

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jhermiz

3564 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 09:53:10
hmm????

So that will add the image? I don't see how that will help me since that is just the codebehind.
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jhermiz

3564 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 09:54:20
quote:
Originally posted by MichaelP

Ohhh you want a button, with an image in the middle of it.

Methinks you should use an Image button, and make the image look the way you want it to look (IE, draw teh button around the calendar image). I don't think I've ever seen a "button" with an image on it.

Michael

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:( that is bad news :(...no XP effect...:(
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MichaelP
Jedi Yak

2489 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 09:56:45
This might help. They change the background image of the button on rollover, but I think you can rip out the guts of this code and make it work for you.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/button2.htm
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/button2_dev.htm

Michael


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jhermiz

3564 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 10:07:30
Ok i created an image button..I added the following code behind:
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Put user code to initialize the page here
ImageButton1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "OnClick();return false;")
End Sub

But the calendar doesnt pop up anymore it refreshes the page for some reason...

The HTML is as follows:


<%@ Control Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="CalendarControl.ascx.vb" Inherits="ims.jakah.com.CalendarControl" TargetSchema="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5" %>
<asp:textbox id="txtIssueClosed" Width="96px" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
<asp:ImageButton id="ImageButton1" runat="server" ImageUrl="/images/calendar.gif"></asp:ImageButton>
<br>
<div id="divCalendar" style="DISPLAY: none; POSITION: absolute"><asp:calendar id="Calendar1" Width="200px" runat="server" CellPadding="4" BorderStyle="Outset"
		BorderColor="#C7D6E4" Font-Names="Arial" Font-Size="8pt" Height="180px" ForeColor="Black" BackColor="White" BorderWidth="2px">
		<TodayDayStyle ForeColor="Black" BackColor="#CCCCCC"></TodayDayStyle>
		<SelectorStyle BackColor="#CCCCCC"></SelectorStyle>
		<NextPrevStyle VerticalAlign="Bottom"></NextPrevStyle>
		<DayHeaderStyle Font-Size="7pt" Font-Bold="True" BackColor="#CCCCCC"></DayHeaderStyle>
		<SelectedDayStyle Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" BackColor="#666666"></SelectedDayStyle>
		<TitleStyle Font-Bold="True" BorderColor="Black" BackColor="#999999"></TitleStyle>
		<WeekendDayStyle BackColor="#FFFFCC"></WeekendDayStyle>
		<OtherMonthDayStyle ForeColor="Gray"></OtherMonthDayStyle>
	</asp:calendar></div>
<script>
function OnClick()
{
  if( divCalendar.style.display == "none")
    divCalendar.style.display = "";
  else
    divCalendar.style.display = "none";
}
</script>
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jhermiz

3564 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 10:10:58
Err this image button goes back and makes a trip back to the server...i cant use that...
My original question should still have a way to place an image on it...

I see there is a BACKGROUN IMAGE attribute of this input style:
<INPUT style="BACKGROUND-POSITION-X: center; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(/images/calendar.gif); WIDTH: 24px; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, SansSerif, Verdana; HEIGHT: 24px"
onclick="OnClick()" value="..." type="button">

In the design view i see this image on this button...
but immediately when I run this project its gone...I even tried getting rid of the value="..." attribute. Why does the design view show me this image but doesnt show me when the project runs.

Thanks
Jon
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MichaelP
Jedi Yak

2489 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 10:29:13
The return false made the page not post back for me. You might need to put that in your actual javascript function, but the way you have it there worked for me.

As far as why your other way didn't work, did you try putting the full path to the image in for the Background? I suspect that it might be a pathing issue. If you put the full path in there and it works, then you need to work out the slashes and dots in the URL to make it work correctly.

Michael

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jhermiz

3564 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 10:31:59
Dunno I tried ../images/calendar.gif
/images/calendar.gif
I even had it set it for me using browse ...

In design view I see it...but when I run the project on the web server the image doesnt show...
i guess its not a big deal I can deal with ... as text in the image, but it was just a gui aspect.
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chadmat
The Chadinator

1974 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 14:22:44
Is the Image in the same relative location on the web server as it is on your development machine?

-Chad

http://www.clrsoft.com

Software built for the Common Language Runtime.
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jhermiz

3564 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-01 : 14:27:23
i was working on this directly from the server..so yes i should be able to see it via /images/calendar.gif.
Surely something else is wrong.
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mroku
Starting Member

3 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-20 : 07:42:22
jhermiz, what's your operating system ?

I recently came into a weird problem with button backgrounds on XP.
Generally the style something like your
BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(/images/calendar.gif) on the button
should work fine. It works without any problems on W2K.
However on XP it works on some pages while on the others
the background image doesn't show up.

So far I don't know the solution for that.
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mroku
Starting Member

3 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-20 : 08:37:23
That's what I found.

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322240[/url]
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mroku
Starting Member

3 Posts
Posted - 2004-10-20 : 08:40:53
Something screwed up my link.
Here is a version to ctrl-c ctrl-v

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322240
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