Radio buttons property type

Mats Dahlgren

Vote:

I would like to assign radio buttons (Y/N, 1/0, true/false or customization) to a property I can put on a page template. IMHO, this whould be nice to have in the standard set of properties.

#18712

Mar 02, 2005 11:23

Vote:

I have created a custom radio button property based on string. The challenge is how to get the radio buttons elements for displaying the selections to the user. I am using the Description field for storing this settings. However this is not optional because of the length limitations to this field.



public class GMSRadio : EPiServer.Core.PropertyString
{
  public GMSRadio(){}
  public override void CreateChildControls(
        string renderType,System.Web.UI.Control container)
  {
    switch(renderType)
    {
      case "edit":
        GMSDescription DynData = 
        	new GMSDescription(this,container,false); 
        //read items from this.description
        
        RadioButtonList input = new RadioButtonList();
        input.ID = Name;
        input.RepeatDirection= DynData.direction;
        input.TextAlign = DynData.align;
        input.RepeatColumns = DynData.iColumns;
        input.RepeatLayout = DynData.layout;
        
        foreach (string strItem in DynData.strItems) 
        {
          input.Items.Add(new ListItem(strItem));
        }

        if(ToString().Length != 0)
        {
          ListItem selectedItem = input.Items.FindByValue(ToString());
          if (selectedItem != null)
            selectedItem.Selected = true;
          else
            input.SelectedIndex = 0;
        }
        else
	        input.SelectedIndex = 0;

        CopyWebAttributes(container, input);
        container.Controls.Add(input);
        container.Controls.Add(CreateParseValidator(input));
        break;

      default:
        base.CreateChildControls(renderType,container);
        break;
    }
  }
}

#18946

Mar 03, 2005 10:08