How to customize RadWindows

[Jackey]

Hi all,

Now I want to create such a below window, see attached file. Basically, it has a different style of Min, Max and Close button. I want to know how do this.

Thanks,
Arthur

[Nasko]

Hello Jingfei,
 
In order to achieve the desired appearance of RadWindow you could use implicit styles to create a custom RadWindowStyle based on the default one. By modifying the default ControlTemplate of the style the desired could be achieved. We have created a sample project that demonstrates the described approach using Windows7 style. Please, give it a try and let us know if it works for you.

We hope this will help you.

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik

 

 

[Jackey]

Thanks Nasko. I've figured out a way to do that according to your suggestions.

[Jackey]

Thanks, Nasko.

I would give it a try.

[Jackey]

Hi Nasko, 

A little further concerns. When i use implicit styles of RadWindow, each time I make some changes, i have to run the app to see how it looks like. Isn't there any design time tool or method to do that?

[Nasko]

Hi Jingfei,

The changes made in the style of RadWindow could be visualized in the Design window of Visual Studio. However, when implicit styles are used the styles are not loaded directly from the UserControl thus the changes could not be visualized. In order to resolve that the ControlTemplate of RadWindow should be set in the RadWindow UserControl definition as shown below:

<telerik:RadWindow  ....
Template="{StaticResource RadWindow_ControlTemplate}"
    ....         >

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik

 

 

[Jackey]

Thanks Nasko. It helps a lot.

However, i don't see any effects of ModalBackground of RadWindow, i don't find any visual structure of radwindow which showing the effect of that property. 

[Polya]

Hello Jingfei,

I am afraid that the ModalBackground property is not supported in RadWindow for WPF. The property is available for cross platform compatibility with Silverlight where the ModalBackground appears in the browser.
This is a limitation in WPF framework and does not relate specifically to RadWindow.

Regards,
Polya
Telerik