"Chris Leffer" <chr***@wank.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> My application fills a repeater with some data and at one column it
> generates a clock for each row. This clock is based on a value that I
> read from my database on each row like below:
>
> Start        Time
> 50:00        49:10
> 70:00        69:30
>
> These clocks are countdown clocks and they are on readonly textboxes.
> Today, I have a bunch of Javascript to do this. It works, but on each
> page refresh I loop through the rows searching for the textboxes and
> running a piece of code on the onblur event of these textboxes to start
> the clocks. It causes a long scroll of the window.
>
> Is there a better way to do it? I need to optimize this window but can't
> think of a better way.
>
> Regards,
> Chris Leffer
>
>
>
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"Chris Leffer" <chr***@wank.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Karl.
>
> Your solution is very similar to mine. I already use an attribute to
> differentiate the clock textboxes from the others, and to start them, I
> run a Javascript function on the page load that loops through the
> textboxes setting the focus on them to raise their onblur event. Each
> onblur event calls a function to start the clock.
>
> My real problem is that setting the focus on each textbox makes the page
> scroll. When the table has many rows the effect is really bad. I am
> trying to find a way to start the clocks without have to put the focus
> on the textbox. Maybe your suggesttion to use a function works for me.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Regards,
> Chris Leffer
>
>
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"Chris Leffer" <chr***@wank.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Karl.
>
> I agree with you but for something I could not discover, the code only
> works if I set the focus on the textboxes.
>
> See, I have this server code to generate the onblur for the textboxes:
>
>    Private Sub repVist_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
> System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventArgs) Handles
> repVist.ItemDataBound
>        Dim txtTime As TextBox
>        Dim objButton As Button
>
>        If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item OrElse _
>        e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem Then
>            Dim strRow As String = e.Item.ClientID & "_newrow"
>
>            txtTime = DirectCast(e.Item.FindControl("txtRowData"),
> TextBox)
>            If Not txtTime Is Nothing Then
>                With txtRestante.Attributes
>                    Dim intSla As Integer = CInt(.Item("sla"))
>                    .Add("fTimer", "true")
>                    .Add("onblur",
> "setClock(document.Form1,this,this.value,this.id," & strRow & "," &
> intSla.ToString & ");")
>
>                End With
>            End If
>
>            objButton = DirectCast(e.Item.FindControl("cmdCancel"),
> Button)
>            If Not objButton Is Nothing Then
>                Dim id As String =
> objButton.Attributes.Item("id").ToString
>                objButton.Attributes.Add("onclick",
> "javascript:window.open('Justnew.aspx?id=" & id & "&mon=true','" &
> id.Trim & "','width=500,height=350,status=yes'); return false;};")
>            End If
>
>        End If
>    End Sub
>
>
>
> And I have that client code called on page load, to start the clocks:
>
>
> function iniciaTimer()
> {
> var e = document.Form1.elements;
> var n = e.length;
> var i;
>
> for(i=0;i<n;++i)
> {
> if (e[i].getAttribute('fTimer') != null)
> {
>  e[i].focus();
>  //e[i].blur();
>  e[i].readOnly=true;
> }
> }
> document.getElementById('cmdReturn').focus();
> }
>
> If I comment the line that set the focus and leave the line that
> executes the blur() function, the code doesn't run.
>
> Can you see something wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Leffer
>
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