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• Rob Hedgpeth

  Posted on Jun 28, 2011 (permalink)

  This question may belong in a different WinForms controls forum. If so, I apologize.
  
  Ultimately, I am wanting to show a carousel full of RadGridViews, but for performance's sake I am converting the RadGridView's into RadImageItems to be loaded into the carousel.
  
  I'd like to be able to put a label above the RadGridView as a title for the grid. So far I've tried adding a RadLabel and RadGridView to a RadItemsContainer, and then using the "GetAsBitmap" function to no avail.  
  
  

  RadImageItem image1 = new RadImageItem();

  image1.Image = rl.RootElement.GetAsBitmap(Brushes.White, 0, new SizeF(1, 1));

  rl.RootElement.GetAsBitmap(Brushes.White, 0, new SizeF(1, 1));

   

  RadImageItem image2 = new RadImageItem();

  image2.Image = grid.RootElement.GetAsBitmap(Brushes.White, 0, new SizeF(1, 1));

   

  RadItemsContainer ric = new RadItemsContainer();

  ric.Items.Add(image1);

  ric.Items.Add(image2);

   

  RadImageItem image3 = new RadImageItem();

  image3.Image = ric.GetAsBitmap(Brushes.White, 0, new SizeF(1, 1));

  image3.ImageKey = imageKey;

  
  (rl = previously declared RadLabel, grid = previously declared RadGridView)
  
  Thanks,
  
  Rob

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• Peter Peter

  Posted on Jul 1, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Rob,

  Thank you for the question.
  
  We have never tested such a scenario before, but I would like to suggest that you to put a RadGridView and RadLabel into a Panel and call Panel.GetAsBitmap method.
  
  Another possible solution is to try to combine two bitmaps - paint objects on different layers - here is an interesting article on how to do this.
  
  I hope this helps.

  Greetings,
  Peter
  the Telerik team

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• Rob Hedgpeth

  Posted on Jul 1, 2011 (permalink)

  Hey Peter,
  
  Thanks for your response.
  
  In case anyone ever has this same issue I was able to solve my problem by creating a bitmap of both the RadGridView and RadLabel, adding the images to a new Bitmap object, and then setting the RadImageItem's Image property to the new Bitmap.
  
  

  //Previously instantiated grid

  grid.BeginInit();

  grid.BindingContext = new BindingContext();

  grid.EndInit();

  grid.LoadElementTree();

   

  RadLabel descriptionLabel = new RadLabel();

  descriptionLabel.Text = "Success!";

  descriptionLabel.LoadElementTree();

      

  Bitmap gridBitmap = grid.RootElement.GetAsBitmap(Brushes.White, 0, new SizeF(1, 1));

  Bitmap labelBitmap = descriptionLabel.RootElement.GetAsBitmap(Brushes.White, 0, new SizeF(1, 1));

   

  Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(x, y, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);

   

  using (Graphics grfx = Graphics.FromImage(bmp))

  {

     grfx.DrawImage(labelBitmap, 0, 0);

     grfx.DrawImage(gridBitmap, 0, 15);

  }

         

  RadImageItem image = new RadImageItem();

  image.Image = bmp;

  
  Thanks again,
  
  Rob

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• Peter Peter

  Posted on Jul 6, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Rob,

  Thank you for the sharing this solution with the community.
  
  Regards,
  Peter
  the Telerik team

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