Hi,

I've just found myself in a predicament where ClientInstanceName can't be used. I have some ClientSideEvents hooked into ASPxSpinEdit controls that are added to templates in a ASPxGridView, once one of these events are triggered i want to iterate through all the other ASPxSpinEdit controls on the same Row/VisibleIndex. To do this i thought that just iterating and using document.getElemenyById would be sufficient, but the object returned does not support the ASPxClientSpinEdit methods; meaning i can't extract the text/value from the object returned.

I can't use the ASPxGridView's GetRowValues either because the values in the ASPxSpinEdit controls might have been changed.

How can i extract the ASPxClientSpinEdit values using only javascript? 

*Bump 1*

I'm seriously in a situation where the only thing i have access to is the name of the ASPxClientSpinEdit in a loop, is there any way for me to get the ASPxClientSpinEdit object using the name in a string format?

Is there no method where i can send in the ClientInstanceName and get a handle to the ASPxClientSpinEdit control?

for (var x = 0; x < numColumns; x++) {
    if (ASPxGridViewRows.GetColumn(x).visible) {
        var controlId = 'ctl00......_ASPxSpinEdit' + x;
        // The following does not return the ASPxClientSpinEdit object, it would be great if there was a DevExpress equivalent method where i could pass in
        // the ClientInstaneName and get a handle to the control
        document.getElementById(controlId).SetReadOnly(false);
    }
}

Hello Mikael,

If you know the unique client identifier of an HTML element that is the top element representing our control within the page (in your case, you compose this identifier manually and assign it to the 'controlId' variable), you can access our client control object as follows:

var editor = ASPxClientControl.GetControlCollection().Get(controlId);

It seems that in your scenario, you can try adopting the approach used in the following CodeCentral examples:

http://search.devexpress.com/?q=access+manipulate+control+in+template+on+client&p=T4|P5|0&d=16

 Hi Andrew, thanks for the reply!

I chose to set unique ClientInstanceNames for the controls on the server-side by hooking into the ASPxGridView's HtmlDataCellPrepared-event and then in a javascript loop use the "window[...]" to get the handles to the client side instances of the controls :D

for (var x = 1; x < numColumns; x++) {
    var id = 'ASPxSpinEditCustomerAccounts_' + y + '_' + x;
    var aspxSpinEdit = window[id];
    ...
}

The "var editor = ASPxClientControl.GetControlCollection().Get(id)" works great as well! I might use your solution instead depending on how heavy the GetControlCollection() is performance/memory wise?

Hello Mikael,

The implementation of the GetControlCollection method is based on the Hash object, and so, it is designed to be very high-performance. We widely use the GetControlCollection method internally implementing our service JavaScript logic.

So, it seems that you can rely upon this method in your scenario with no worry.