RenEvo

Hey, I have a newbie question in ASP.NET.

I'm making a menu on the top of the page to get to the various site sections, like this site.

But I want to make the control be able to read the URL and based on that know where it's at and accordingly change the appearance of the suitable button.

did you get anywhere with this?  if so, can you post your resolution.

I am not familiar enough with the environment or method you are using a menu to be able to post a good answer.

Ummm... no.

The Menu control is not suitable for me. Not in this capacity anyway.

Instead, I did it with a custom control based on a horizontal list of anchors and labels. With the Page_Load of the custom control checking the location of the page and then, accordingly (Select Case) assignes the proper attributes to the coresponding menu "button".

Though, I wanted to do it, instead of using Select Case, with a loop of items inside the panel - didn't quite work out.

<script runat="server">

Sub Page_Load()

Dim strPath As String = Request.ServerVariables("URL")

Dim a() As String

a = strPath.Split("/")

Select Case a(2)

Case "ILS" : dskILS.BackColor = Drawing.Color.Ivory

Case "default.aspx" : dskMain.BackColor = Drawing.Color.Ivory

Case "תקינה והפעלה" : dskTkna.BackColor = Drawing.Color.Ivory

Case "ארגון ולוגיסטיקה" : dskOl.BackColor = Drawing.Color.Ivory

Case "לוגיסטיקה ייעודית" : dskLog.BackColor = Drawing.Color.Ivory

Case "ציוד כללי" : dskZiud.BackColor = Drawing.Color.Ivory

Case "ניהול מספן" : dskKnl.BackColor = Drawing.Color.Ivory

End Select

End Sub

</script>

<div id="top1">

<div style="text-align:right">

<img alt="ענף לוגיסטיקה" src="/taba_web/images/title.gif" />

</div>

<asp:Panel ID="TopMenu" Direction="righttoleft" runat="server">

<a href="/Taba_Web/ציוד כללי/"><asp:Label BorderColor="black" BorderWidth="2px" Width="100px" ID="dskZiud" Text="ציוד כללי" ToolTip="ציוד כללי" runat="server" style="cursor: hand" /></a>

<a href="/Taba_Web/לוגיסטיקה ייעודית/"><asp:Label BorderColor="black" BorderWidth="2px" Width="100px" ID="dskLog" Text="לוגיסטיקה ייעודית" ToolTip="לוגיסטיקה ייעודית" runat="server" style="cursor: hand" /></a>

<a href="/Taba_Web/ניהול מספן/"><asp:Label BorderColor="black" BorderWidth="2px" Width="100px" ID="dskKnl" Text="ניהול המספן" ToolTip="ניהול מספן" runat="server" style="cursor: hand" /></a>

<a href="/Taba_Web/"><asp:Label BorderColor="black" BorderWidth="2px" Width="100px" ID="dskMain" Text="הענף" ToolTip="" runat="server" style="cursor: hand" /></a>

<a href="/Taba_Web/ארגון ולוגיסטיקה/"><asp:Label BorderColor="black" BorderWidth="2px" Width="100px" ID="dskOl" Text="ארגון ולוגיסטיקה" ToolTip="ארגון ולוגיסטיקה" runat="server" style="cursor: hand" /></a>

<a href="/Taba_Web/ILS/"><asp:Label BorderColor="black" BorderWidth="2px" Width="100px" ID="dskILS" Text="ILS" ToolTip="ILS" runat="server" style="cursor: hand" /></a>

<a href="/Taba_Web/תקינה והפעלה/"><asp:Label BorderColor="black" BorderWidth="2px" Width="100px" ID="dskTkna" Text="תקינה והפעלה" ToolTip="תקינה והפעלה" runat="server" style="cursor: hand" /></a>

<asp:Label ID="msg1" runat = "server" />

</asp:Panel>

</div>

Instead, I want to make a loop in the server script.

It will run through the label items inside the panel and compare the a(2) with the Label.Text or Label.ToolTip. If it's the same it will set the background color and border width to something like a pressed button, otherwise it will set background color and border width to something like unpressed button.

But for some reason it won't work.
Gives me that error I asked you about on MSN last week or so.