Disable expanding on RadPanelBarItem?

[Erik]

Is it possible to force a RadPanelBarItem to be always open? (hide the expander button, disable double click on header)

[Petar Mladenov]

Hello Erik,

 Please check out the attached project where a possible approach is demonstrated. The Style of the PanelBarItems is edited in order to hide the "Arrow" ( its Opacity is set to 0). On the other hand, we have set only one RadPanelBarItem to be Expanded initially and we have globally set:

IsExpandOnSingleClickEnabled="False"
IsExpandOnDblClickEnabled="False"

  All the best,
Petar Mladenov
the Telerik team

[Erik]

Thanks Petar your solution works.

RadPanelBar and RadPanelBarItem each expose a property named 'ExpanderStyle', can this property be used to modify the visualisation of the expander? (so that I don't have to template the entire RadPanelBar)

[Petar Mladenov]

Hi Erik ,

 This property is inherited from RadTreeView but cannot be used in RadPanelBar. Please excuse us for the inconvenience caused.

Kind regards,
Petar Mladenov
the Telerik team

[Cameron]

With the example you've attached, is there anyway to reduce what is being overwritten with the style for the RadPanelBarItem and only override the image. The reason I ask is because I would like to use one of the predefined themes offered and simply remove the image. It sure would be nice to have a property that can be set on the control to do this in a future release. Because if you look at the example given here...The use case suggested is if the properties: IsExcpandOnSingleClickEnabled and IsExpandOnDbleClickEnabled are both set to false, then having the expand image visible is meaningless, yes?

Thanks
Cameron

[Tina Stancheva]

Hi Cameron,

I can definitely see your point and this is why I've logged a feature request to expose a property to allow an easier customization of the expander indicator of each RadPanelBarItem. I also updated your Telerik account as a small sign of appreciation for sharing your feedback on the control.

If, you'd like to track and/or vote for this task, you can do it in our PITS.

Regards,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team