server side javascript array

[jvcoach23]

I am trying to load an array on the load of a page to javascript. the
script will eventually have parts being loaded from a database... this is
just a first step to get there... Here is the code

Dim mScript As New System.Text.StringBuilder
mScript = mScript.Append("<script type='text/javascript'>" & vbNewLine)

mScript.Append("var mIconAry = new Array();" & vbNewLine)
mScript.Append("mIconAry[" & 0 & "]='" &
"http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/purple-pushpin.png" & "';" &
vbNewLine)
mScript.Append("mIconAry[" & 1 & "]='" &
"http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/green-pushpin.png" & "';" &
vbNewLine)

'mScript.Append("var mInfoBox = new Array();" & vbNewLine)
'mscript.Append("mInfoBox[" & 0 & "]='" &

mScript.Append("</script>")
RegisterStartupScript("RegisterClientScriptBlock", mScript.ToString())

when i run this.. the javascript isn't there. I've tried looking using
firefox and a plugin that allows you to see all the javascript and it's not
there.. i'm using the same technique as i've used on another page and it
works there.. i don't think i've left anything out.

I'd like to use this array to put pushpins onto a microsoft virutal earth
map that i'm using. anyway.. anyone have any idea's what i'm doing wrong
in my code above.

thanks
shannon

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Why don't you use the RegisterArrayDeclaration method?

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net

 

[jvcoach23]

Thanks
in doing a little searching... i see this

RegisterArrayDeclaration("TextBoxes","TextBox1")
RegisterArrayDeclaration("TextBoxes", "TextBox2")

and they say that it will produce

<script language="javascript" >
<!--
var TextBoxes = new Array(TextBox1, TextBox2);
// -->
</script>

is it as simple as that to get the array in there... i've tried it.. the
array is not showing up in the javascript.. so i'm just curious if what
i've read is incorrect.
thanks

 

[jvcoach23]

I added the ClientScript.RegisterArrayDeclaration("mIconAry",
"http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/purple-pushpin.png")

to another page.. and when the page renders.. it puts the array in
var mIconAry = new
Array(http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/purple-pushpin.png);

but when i try it on a different page, within the same project... on the
page with the microsoft map... it doesn't show up...

hope that is helpful
shannon

 

[bruce barker]

the non-woprking page probably does a redirect, so none of its html is of any
use.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[jvcoach23]

Found the problem... the line needed to read

ClientScript.RegisterArrayDeclaration("mIconAry",
"'http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/purple-pushpin.png'")


I needed the single ' inside of the double "

thanks
shannon