compression effect on added Items

[André]

I'm trying to display some pictures and textblock inside a grid inside the coverflow, but have some bugs/problem with that.

My <XAML> code:

<telerikNavigation:RadCoverFlow
    Margin="0,28,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top"
    x:Name="RadFlowPict"
    OffsetX="0" OffsetY="100" ReflectionOpacity="0.4" ReflectionHeight="0.4"
    ItemScale="0.6" RotationY="55"
    DistanceBetweenItems="30" DistanceFromSelectedItem="5"
    CameraViewpoint="Center" ItemChangeDelay="00:00:01"
    SelectionChanged="RadFlowPict_SelectionChanged">
    <telerikNavigation:RadCoverFlow.Background>
        <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
            <GradientStop Color="#FF121212" Offset="1"/>
            <GradientStop Color="#FFFAF6F6" Offset="0.60"/>
        </LinearGradientBrush>
    </telerikNavigation:RadCoverFlow.Background>
</telerikNavigation:RadCoverFlow>

My code:

Grid InsertGrid = new Grid();
InsertGrid.RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition() { Height = new GridLength(0, GridUnitType.Auto)});
InsertGrid.RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition() { Height = new GridLength(25) });

Image InsertImage = new Image()
{
    Width=350,
    MaxHeight=265,
    Stretch=System.Windows.Media.Stretch.Uniform,
    Visibility=System.Windows.Visibility.Visible,
    Source=new BitmapImage(myUri)
};
InsertImage.SetValue(Grid.RowProperty, 0);

InsertGrid.Children.Add(InsertImage);

TextBlock InsertText = new TextBlock()
{
    HorizontalAlignment = System.Windows.HorizontalAlignment.Center,
    Text = temp
};
System.Windows.Media.Effects.DropShadowEffect myDropShadowEffect = new System.Windows.Media.Effects.DropShadowEffect()
{
    BlurRadius = 4,
    ShadowDepth = 2,
    Opacity = 0.49
};
InsertText.Effect = myDropShadowEffect;
InsertText.SetValue(Grid.RowProperty, 1);
InsertGrid.Children.Add(InsertText);
RadFlowPict.Items.Add(InsertGrid);

When the coverflow first time is displaying, the textblocks are missing (please see Image1.png added).
When changing between images all is fine (please see Image2.png and Image4.png added),
but after the animation ended the image and the textblock seems to get compress until nothing can get read (please see Image3.png and Image5.png added).

Any suggestions or help on this?

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi André,

The code you sent works just fine in my project (please find it attached). Could you please open a support ticket and send us a sample project that reproduces the problem?

Sincerely yours,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team

[André]

I couldn't load the added project, as it seems a silverlight 4 project, or with silverlight 4 telerik controls. I'm still using silverlight 3 and the Q1 2010 Telerik controls.

Any chance to get it run with that configuration?

By the way, I exchanged the grid through a stack panel and got the problem with the compressed font and pictures solved, but still have the problem with the caption not shown for the first picture.

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi André,

 Could you please open a support ticket and send us a sample project that reproduces the problem?
If you want to try the code I sent you with Silverlight 3 you just need to create an empty project and move the xaml and cs files to the new project and add references the our assemblies for Silverlight 3.

All the best,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team