Both loading panels show up

[ManniAT]

Hi,

I have a Masterpage with the following settings for Ajax

        <telerik:RadAjaxManager ID="ramManager" runat="server" DefaultLoadingPanelID="alpPan1" UpdatePanelsRenderMode="Inline" onajaxrequest="ramManager_AjaxRequest" RequestQueueSize="6">
        <AjaxSettings>
            <telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="ramManager">
                <UpdatedControls>

                </UpdatedControls>
            </telerik:AjaxSetting>
        </AjaxSettings>
    </telerik:RadAjaxManager>
    <telerik:RadAjaxLoadingPanel ID="alpPan1" Width="200" Height="200" runat="server" Transparency="0" MinDisplayTime="2000">
        <img alt="Loading..." src='<%= RadAjaxLoadingPanel.GetWebResourceUrl(Page, "Telerik.Web.UI.Skins.Default.Ajax.loading6.gif") %>' style="border: 0;" />
    </telerik:RadAjaxLoadingPanel>

About the "missing" updated controls - my ajax function does only set a session variable.

On a page I have a radgrid and an ajax proxy like this.

    <telerik:RadAjaxManagerProxy ID="raProxy" runat="server">
        <AjaxSettings>
            <telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="rgCartLines">
                <UpdatedControls>
                    <telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="rgCartLines"/>
                </UpdatedControls>
            </telerik:AjaxSetting>
        </AjaxSettings>
    </telerik:RadAjaxManagerProxy>

My problem - the grid shows the loading panel I choose - plus the "new auto panel" from the skin.

I already started a thread in grid about the "new panels" - I'm not really happy that I can't provide my own panel (with the next version it should be like this).
The reason - a "spinning wheel" say's almost nothing - especially when it does no longer spin because there is lengthy client rendering going on.

Anyhow - at the moment the "old panels" are still supported -- BUT I get the panel I choose PLUS the other one.
This does not look good.
How can I turn of this "Autopanel feature" so that only my panels (set via manager) get's displayed?

Regards

Manfred

[Dimo]

Hello Manfred,

You can simply set ShowStatusBar="false" to RadGrid and use only the RadAjaxLoadingPanel.

Kind regards,
Dimo
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[ManniAT]

Hi,

I guess i was misunderstood (maybe this comes from lacks in my english).

The problem I'm talking about is the "duplication of loading panels".
Here a screenshot of my problem: http://wow.puzzle101.net/images/loadingpan.png
As told above I already made a post which includes (some aspects) of this problem.
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/general-discussions/first-impressions-q1-2009.aspx#769018
And what Dimo told here is true on the one hand - and wrong on the other.
>>the control's Skin property value is set to "" by default, so one will not receive two animated images with the Q1 2009 version
That sounds true - but the fact is that default isn't looking that good so I have to set a Skin - which results in double animations.
The other problem - if you don't set a loading panel (keep the things as they are) - the complete controls is grayed out (especially with skin black) and somewhere is that spinner. (In the middle of the control). With big grids where you have to scroll - this is really nasty looking (the users sees only a dark gird - nothing more).

Anyhow I have to set my panel - and the result is what you see in the screenshot.
And this is not even a telerik control - it is an image - no chance to set a Skin.
I found the source of the problem - there is a skin set - I do it in web.config since my customer should be able to change the general look of the telerik controls.

But the post of Dimo brought me to a solution. I set this CSS rule:

div.RadAjax_Office2007 .raDiv
{
    background-image:none;
}

And I have to do this for every available skin since my customer can change skins.
But finally this makes the nasty extra spinner disappear.

Thank you

Manfred

[Dimo]

Hello ManniAT,

I am glad that you have resolved your problem. Actually, if you set Skin="" to the RadAjaxLoadingPanel, this will override the web.config setting.

Here is some more information about the RadAjaxLoadingPanel skinning feature, in case someone needs it:

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/skins.html

Sincerely yours,
Dimo
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[ManniAT]

Thank you for this information - it saves me from including all possible Skins in my CSS override.

[TonyG]

This was very helpful to me. I removed the default Telerik image from my loading panel and then added another asp:Image within the RadAjaxLoadingPanel tags. (An HTML <img> tag doesn't work.)  But then I was always getting two images, mine plus the default spinner.  I did searches for text like "two images", "extra image", "additional images", etc and didn't find anything useful until I got to this thread.  Setting Skin="" on the loadingpanel did the trick!  And I've used the keywords that I was searching for in this posting to help any other poor idiot who's trying to solve the same problem.  ;)