order of event firing problem

[steven shingler]

Hi all,

Would really appreciate some help on this one!

Am trying to make a multilingual site with a button to toggle between
English and Welsh.

Have an imagebutton with an onclick event to handle the toggle:

private void changeLanguage(object sender,
System.Web.UI.ImageClickEventArgs e)
{
if(Session["Language"].ToString()=="English")
Session["Language"] = "Welsh";
else
Session["Language"] = "English";
}

The aspx page contains a load of things like this:
<td><%= ex_lang.getText("5")%></td>

Which draws in the relevant text from an xml file, picking the correct
language node according to the Session["Language"]

The (very weird) problem is that if I hit the button once, nothing
happens. If I hit it a second time - and every subsequent time - it
behaves perfectly, translating the text as the page loads.
I know that Page_Load is called before the click event, and I guess
that's why this is happening, but how can I prevent this delay?
I hope I've explained this well enough, if anyone has any suggestions
I'd really love to hear them.
Many Thanks
Steven Shingler

[Marina]

I would recommend you not do things like:
<td><%= ex_lang.getText("5")%></td>

Instead, use server side controls, and have a function which populates them
with the correct data.

In general, I recommend you stay away from server side scripts like that,
and keep all your code in the codebehind.

"steven shingler" <steven.shingler@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:95acc33d.0308010733.35b10d50@posting.google.c om...

> Hi all,
>
> Would really appreciate some help on this one!
>
> Am trying to make a multilingual site with a button to toggle between
> English and Welsh.
>
> Have an imagebutton with an onclick event to handle the toggle:
>
> private void changeLanguage(object sender,
> System.Web.UI.ImageClickEventArgs e)
> {
> if(Session["Language"].ToString()=="English")
> Session["Language"] = "Welsh";
> else
> Session["Language"] = "English";
> }
>
> The aspx page contains a load of things like this:
> <td><%= ex_lang.getText("5")%></td>
>
> Which draws in the relevant text from an xml file, picking the correct
> language node according to the Session["Language"]
>
> The (very weird) problem is that if I hit the button once, nothing
> happens. If I hit it a second time - and every subsequent time - it
> behaves perfectly, translating the text as the page loads.
> I know that Page_Load is called before the click event, and I guess
> that's why this is happening, but how can I prevent this delay?
> I hope I've explained this well enough, if anyone has any suggestions
> I'd really love to hear them.
> Many Thanks
> Steven Shingler