total count of dropdown's selected

My dropdown code is
<asp:DropDownList id="dd" runat="server" Width="87px" Font-Size="XX-Small" OnSelectedIndexChanged="dd_SelectedIndexChanged" AutoPostBack="true" >
<asp:ListItem Value="Item1">Item1asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Value="Item2">Item2asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Value="Item3">Item3asp:ListItem>
asp:DropDownList>
<input type="hidden" id="inpHide" runat="server" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" id="hidSendNotification" runat="server" value="0" />
Java Script Code
<script type="text/javascript">
function ConfirmItTest(inpHide) {
var getValue=parseInt(document.getElementById(inpHide).value);
if (getValue>0)
{if(confirm("Do you want to send notifications to "+document.getElementById(inpHide).value +" Owners."))
{
document.getElementById("<%=hidSendNotification.ClientID%>").value="1";
return true;
}else{false;}
}
else
{
alert("NO CHANGES DONE");
return false;
}
}
script>
MY Page retrieves many dropdown.Supposing i have selected items of 3 dropdown then a dialog box appears saying that "Do you want to send notification to 3 owners".
Dropdown code in codebehind is'
protected void dd_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int count = 0;
count = Convert.ToInt32(inpHide.Value);
for (int i = 0; i < m_grid.Items.Count; i++)
{
if (((DropDownList)sender).ClientID == m_grid.Items[i].FindControl(((DropDownList)sender).ID).ClientID)
{
if (((DropDownList)sender).SelectedValue != m_grid.Items[i].Cells[1].Text)
{
count++;
}
}
}
inpHide.Value = count.ToString();
}
Problem is that..
Supposing if i select dopdown1-> item1 but again i change my decision and select item2 of same dropdown1.BUT the count appears as 2 since i have cilkes twice on same dropdown and hence dialog box says "Do you want to send notification to 2 owners".Count should be 1 since I have selected only 1 dropdown.
How to handle correct count in this scenario?

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theLizard16y ago
you can maintain an array of clicked items id's then do something like (this should work!!!!)

if (((DropDownList)sender).SelectedValue != m_grid.Items[i].Cells[1].Text)
{
for(int x = 0; x < array.length; x++)
{
if(array[x] == ((DropDownList)sender).SelectedIndex)
     {
     addcount = false;
     break;
     }
   }
if(addcount)
   {
   Array.Resize(ref array, array.length +1);
   array[array.length-1] = ((DropDownList)sender).SelectedIndex;
   count++;    //using the array you may possibly do away with he count var.
   }
else
   //don't forget to adjust your array to remove the index
   count--;

}