Home / Community & Support / Developer Productivity Tools Forums / WPF > Gauges > Custom themes for 2011 Q3 Gauge

• Max

  Posted on Nov 18, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi all!
  
  I have successfully implemented custom themes (telerik approach) for 2011 Q2 version
  of gauges in VS 2010. I was using "Creating and applying a custom theme for RadScheduler for WPF" as help.
  
  Yesterday I installed 2011 Q3 RAD controls and tried to implement new gauges and they are looking
  beautiful and are working fine. I also created another custom theme project for new gauges, but I'm
  having problems with resources files :( I used templates from Telerik theme samples.
  I tried different approaches defining Resources in custom themes library. But I was either getting error
  "invalid ThemeType" or "Cannot locate resource 'themes/gauge/customdarkq3/styles.xaml'".
  
  Has procedure for custom themes changed for Q3 version of controls? I noticed there are now 2
  gauges xaml files (Gauge.xaml and Gauge_New.xaml). Any suggestion on how to approach this problem?
  
  Regards, Max
  
  

  Reply

• Andrey Andrey

  Posted on Nov 23, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Max,
  
  I have created a sample solution which implements a custom theme for the new gauge control using the instructions of the article. I have used the Gauge_New.xaml file as a base file for the Generic.xaml of the custom theme project. It works as expected.
  
  I have attached the sample solution. I hope it helps.
  
  All the best,
  Andrey Murzov
  the Telerik team

  Explore the entire Telerik portfolio by downloading the Ultimate Collection trial package. Get it now >>

  Attached files

  • CustomGaugeTheme.zip

  Reply

• Max

  Posted on Nov 23, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Andrey,
  
  I tested your solution and it works fine for Radial Gauge-s, but it's not working for
  Vertical or Horizontal linear gauge :(
  I'm not very experienced with WPF so I wasn't able to find missing settings in generic.xaml.
  Can you please check it yourself and see what is missing?
  
  Thanks for all the help!
  
  Kind regards, Max

  Reply

• Andrey Andrey

  Posted on Nov 25, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Max,
  
  Unfortunately there is a problem with the use of custom themes in linear gauge types. We already have the PITS issue on changing the theming mechanism. You can track its implementation using the following link:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/pits.aspx#/public/silverlight/8593
  
  All the best,
  Andrey Murzov
  the Telerik team

  Explore the entire Telerik portfolio by downloading the Ultimate Collection trial package. Get it now >>

  Reply

• Max

  Posted on Nov 28, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Andrey,
  
  thanks for your reply. I'll track the issue and hope that you'll be able to resolve it soon!
  
  Good luck :)
  
  Kind regards, Max
  

  Reply

Back to Top

Home / Community & Support / Developer Productivity Tools Forums / WPF > Gauges > Custom themes for 2011 Q3 Gauge