ComponentArt

Using resuable content with a ComponentArt Dialog

Steve Gray — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:53:00 GMT

I recently wrote in to ComponentArt support on this subject, here is the email thread.

Sirs:
I'd like to be able to somehow templage the Dialog control so that I didnt have so much text on my .aspx page.

In other words, I'd like to replace everything in the <header> and <footer> areas and somehow populate them from a class.

Is that at all possible?

something like:

Dialog1.header.innerhtml = "<table>...</table>"

Steve,

The easiest way to do this would be to load controls into the Content in code behind by using:

Dialog1.Header.Controls.Add(Page.LoadControl("Head1.ascx"));
Dialog1.Content.Controls.Add(Page.LoadControl("Page1.ascx"));
Dialog1.Footer.Controls.Add(Page.LoadControl("Foot1.ascx"));

Just leave your sections empty in the dialog.

Hope this helps.

Template code for adding a ComponentArt Menu to a site

Steve Gray — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:57:00 GMT

Adding a ComponentArt menu to a web site is something that I have to do frequently, here is template code to do that quickly

Menu code:

<ComponentArt:Menu id="Menu1"
    ExpandDelay="50"
    DefaultGroupCssClass="Group"
    SiteMapXmlFile="menuData.xml"
    ImagesBaseUrl="images/"
    DefaultItemLookID="DefaultItemLook"
    EnableViewState="false" Width="100%"
    runat="server">
    <ItemLooks>
        <ComponentArt:ItemLook LookID="DefaultItemLook" CssClass="Item" 
            HoverCssClass="ItemH" ExpandedCssClass="ItemExp" LabelPaddingLeft="5" 
            LabelPaddingRight="15" LabelPaddingTop="2" LabelPaddingBottom="2" 
            RightIconUrl="arrow.gif" RightIconWidth="15" RightIconHeight="10" 
            RightIconVisibility="WhenExpandable" />
        <ComponentArt:ItemLook LookID="EdgeLook" CssClass="ItemEdge" />
        <ComponentArt:ItemLook LookID="BreakItem" ImageUrl="break.gif" ImageHeight="1" ImageWidth="100%" />
    </ItemLooks>
</ComponentArt:Menu>

Create MenuData.xml like this:

<SiteMap>
 <item text=" " width="5px" LookID="EdgeLook" />
 <item text="Home" NavigateUrl="Default.aspx"  />


 <item text=" " width="5px" LookID="EdgeLook" />
 <item text="Photo Album" NavigateUrl="PhotoAlbums.aspx"  />


 <item text=" " width="5px" LookID="EdgeLook" />
 <item text="Photo Caption Contest" NavigateUrl="PhotoCaptionContest.aspx"  />


 <item text=" " width="5px" LookID="EdgeLook" />
 <item text=" " width="100%" />
</SiteMap>

Then add the .css file:

.Group
{
 border:solid 1px black; 


 background-repeat:repeat;
 background-position:left;
 padding-bottom: 0px;
 padding-top:0px;
 padding-left:2px;
 padding-right: 2px; 
 text-align: center;
 height:22px; 
 vertical-align:middle;
 font-size:12px; 
 color:white;


}
.test { }


.ItemEdge
{
 font-family: verdana;
 background-image :url(/images/menuBG2.gif);
 border:solid 0px black; 
 cursor:pointer;
}
.Item
{
 font-family: verdana;
 background-image :url(/images/menuBG.gif);
 border:solid 0px black; 
 cursor:pointer;
}


.ItemH
{
 font-family: verdana; 
 background-image :url(/images/menuBG.gif);
 color:silver; 
 border:solid 0px black; 
 cursor:pointer;
}


.ItemExp
{
  color:black; 
  font-size:12px; 
  border:solid 0px black; 
  cursor:pointer;
}

Licensing

Steve Gray — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:32:00 GMT

This is a small piece of code that I got in response to a request on the CA fourm. I'm posting it here so that I can find it more easily when I need it.

The issue is that when I open an older site to edit it, sometimes the ComponentArt dll gets updated. Then, the client will call sometime later and complain about the licensing 'nag' screen.

This code will do something if the menu is not properly licensed

 if not menu1.islicensed() then


     'do something


    menu1.visible = false


end if