Browser Forms

Re: Browser compatible MessageBox.Show() alternative?

Bhavesh — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:13:49 GMT

HI,

You can set conditional formatting for the text fields which u want to display and hide based on some flag field in the data source. e.g You can add a field in the data source of type boolean. When you click some button and want to display the message, set the hidden flag to true on button click, so based on the flag's value the field will b visible to the user.

Bhavesh

Re: Browser compatible MessageBox.Show() alternative?

InfoPathN00b — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:53:23 GMT

Thanks Clay, that's a good idea but I can't figure out how to show and hide textfields in code. I'm referencing it like this:

XPathNavigator txtError = this.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:txtError", this.NamespaceManager);

I'm looking for something like txtError.Show() or txtError.Hide() but I can't see anything like that.

Re: Browser compatible MessageBox.Show() alternative?

Clay Fox — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:17:26 GMT

Yah there is no popup option in the browser.

What I have done for alerts and messaging like this is to create a hidden section and a message field.

When the field is set with text then it becomes visible and has some coloration to draw attention.

Not quite the same, but effective to place it adjacent to the submit buttons and to post validation messages.

Browser compatible MessageBox.Show() alternative?

InfoPathN00b — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:35:02 GMT

I want to make my form web compatible but have some custom code in C# which uses MessageBox.Show() notifications from System.Windows.Forms to notify the user if something has gone wrong or if they have entered an invalid value. Unfortunately the DesignChecker flags all occurances of these as a 'Unsupported feature in code'. What can I replace it with that is browser-friendly and does the same job?