[CLOSED] Question about DirectMethod/DirectEvents call

[feanor91]

Hello

Until now I called my DirectMethod/Events in th e code behind of the page, fore example, from Default.aspc to Default.aspx.cs.

I wonder if it is possible to make such a call to another page or to a dll in an external class?

For example today I do that

 <DirectEvents>
     <BeforeShow OnEvent="CreateAboutWindow" Timeout="300000"></BeforeShow>
 </DirectEvents>

Is it possible to replace by something like that :

 <DirectEvents>
      <BeforeShow OnEvent="MyClass.CreateAboutWindow" Timeout="300000"></BeforeShow>
 </DirectEvents>

And same thing for a directMethod?

[fabricio.murta]

Hello @feanor91!

No, as for Direct Methods and events, it will not work. The direct methods/events are registered as App.direct.<method_name> during page load, and remote classes are not mapped there, even if they are public and static.

But from the direct methods you can instantiate and call those remote classes (including in different assemblies).

Not really directMethod, but still you can use AJAX requests that, if the class is set up to handle such requests, you will able to. One example of such is using AJAX Proxy to get a result from a MVC controller.

If you have some experience with MVC, for example if you look at the TreePanel with Ajax Proxy MVC example, you'll see that, although not in webforms format, the TreeStore's URL points to "GetChildren" action address.

If you're not much acquainted to MVC, what this 'action address' does is essentially access the same address with '/GetChildren' appended to it. While the example's address is:
http://mvc.ext.net/#/TreePanel_Loaders/Proxy/

It will just query the address:
http://mvc.ext.net/#/TreePanel_Loade...xy/GetChildren

For the data to load in the store. If you open this second address, you'll see the json-encoded data that is shown on the tree.

I hope this helps, although diverted significantly from the original question.

[feanor91]

Hi,

You just confirmed what I thought...Ext.Net is magic but magic has to stop somewhere :)

Thanks