Hi all,

I am not quite sure how to phrase the subject, so apologies.

I am writing a custom control. It is using a textbox. I create the text box,
but cannot read the contents of it later.

Here is my code...

using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;

namespace MyProjectControls
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for WebCustomControl1.
/// </summary>
[DefaultProperty("Text"),
 ToolboxData("<{0}:WebCustomControl1
runat=server></{0}:WebCustomControl1>")]
public class HTMLPlaceHolder : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
{

 private System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tb = new TextBox();

 private string text;
 private string _CurrentViewMode = "display";

 [Bindable(true),
  Category("Appearance"),
  DefaultValue("")]
 public string Text
 {
  get
  {
   return text;
  }

  set
  {
   text = value;
  }
 }

 public string CurrentViewMode
 {
  get
  {
   return _CurrentViewMode.ToLower();
  }

  set
  {
   _CurrentViewMode = value.ToLower();
  }
 }

 /// <summary>
 /// Render this control to the output parameter specified.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="output"> The HTML writer to write out to </param>
 protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter output)
 {

  RenderContents(output);

 }

 protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
 {
  System.Web.UI.Page MyPage = this.Page as System.Web.UI.Page;

  CurrentViewMode = MyPage.PageState;

  Text = "This is purely test text"

  if (MyPage.AllowSave)
  {
   SavePlaceholder();
  }

  switch (CurrentViewMode)
  {
   case "edit" :
    AuthoringPlaceholder();
    break;
   case "display" :
    DisplayPlaceholder();
    break;
   case "design" :
    DesignPlaceholder();
    break;
   default:
    DisplayPlaceholder();
    break;
  }

  base.OnPreRender (e);
 }

 protected void DesignPlaceholder()
 {
 }

 protected void AuthoringPlaceholder()
 {
  //TextBox tb = new TextBox();

  //this.tb = new TextBox();
  this.tb.ID = this.ID;
  this.tb.TextMode = TextBoxMode.MultiLine;
  this.tb.Text = Text;
  this.tb.Columns = 40;
  this.tb.Rows = 15;

  Controls.Add(this.tb);

 }

 protected void DisplayPlaceholder()
 {
  LiteralControl lit = new LiteralControl("<div>" + Text + "</div>");
  Controls.Add(lit);
 }

 protected void SavePlaceholder()
 {
  System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(this.tb.Text);
 }

}
}

In the SavePlaceHolder, I want to be able to display what is written in the
text box. (Actually, I want to save it, but to display it will show that
something is happening).

However, this.tb.Text has nothing in it in the SavePlaceholder.

How can I ensure that what is coming back when the page is submitted is
actually there?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Dave Colliver.
http://www.AshfieldFOCUS.com
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