DevTools for .NET

Not answered Error When Selecting Black as a Base Theme

Betty

Posted on Aug 8, 2011 (permalink)

Hello,

I'm receiving an error when selecting Black as a base skin in the Visual Style Builder for the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX. Steps to reproduce:
1) Select the ASP.NET AJAX tab on the Visual Style Builder Website
2) Enter any name into the Skin Name (I used Temp1 or MyStyle)
3) Select "Blacl" as the Base Skin
4) Select TabStrip (or any control)
5) Click "Create"

An error message pops up saying :

Failed to create skin!
A server error has occured.
We have been notified and will try to resolve it ASAP.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

I've tried creating a new skin using Black as a base under IE9, FireFox 5 and Chrome with out success. I also have Silverlight 4 installed, if that information helps. Please assist.

Thanks,
Betty

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Rob

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 (permalink)

Hi,

This is still causing me problems. Do you have any idea when it will be working? - I am stuck without it!

In the meantime, would it be possible to supply a "black" skin template such as that that VSB would create? This would help as I am wanting to use the black skin but cannot use the Embedded skins. The skins I have as part of the install seem to be different in structure to the ones that come out of VSB and cause 1 or 2 issues with RadWindow...

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

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Cradz

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 (permalink)

Rob,

Are you having the same problem I had per http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/skin-manager/custom-skins-radwindow-fails-to-load-css.aspx ?

I was having a problem with custom skins not showing the skin correctly with RadWindowManager and RadAjaxManager.

They have fixed it with the latest internal build.

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Rob

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 (permalink)

Hi Cradz,
It certainly looks very much like it. I'll look forward to the new release! - My guess is it should be due pretty shortly if it is a "Q3 2011" edition :)

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Cradz

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 (permalink)

If you don't want to use the current internal build you can use the fix per the topic I posted above.

You just need to include the custom window css file (and ajax if using ajax loading panels) in your page either hardcoded or insert via the code like I did in codebehind (I have a page base class so was super easy for me). Another option is to just add a blank hardcoded window in RadWindowManager as that fixes the problem too.

I'm currently recoding my site from the ground up so I'm using the internal build which fixed the problem and hopefully they'll release the production version before I'm done. :)

Regarding the black theme, I have a "charcoal" theme on my site which closly matches the telerik black theme except for the green link colors. I just copied the black theme from the telerik install directory and ran search and replace to replace black with charcoal and searched for the html color they use for the green and changed it to the brown color I need.

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Rob

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 (permalink)

Hi Cradz,

Yes, we're looking at the code at the moment.

Your "Charcoal" theme sounds good - I was planning on changing the green links anyway!
Could you post it for me?

Thanks a lot 8¬)

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Cradz

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 (permalink)

Unfortunately can't attach here.

I haven't done much though so probably wouldn't be useful to you. I haven't changed any images yet etc. just the link colors.

I mainly wanted to change the RadMenu hover link color as the green was driving me nuts.

I use #CC6620 as my color. You have to change the name of the css files i.e. Menu.Black.css to Menu.Charcoal.css and then search and replace areas such as:

.RadMenu_Black a.rmLink:hover { color: #9eda29; }

to

.RadMenu_Charcoal a.rmLink:hover

{

color: #CC6620;

}

So all I did was search and replace _Black and replaced with _Charcoal and then #9eda29 to #CC6620.

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