How to set the RadDropDownButton fontcolor

[Wen]

I am trying to set the RadDropDownButton font color by programming by setting  this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.ForeColor,but the font color does change at all, is there the way to set the font color?
            // 
            // btnActionOfDeviceTask
            // 
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.Anchor = ((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left)));
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.Items.AddRange(new Telerik.WinControls.RadItem[] { 
            this.btnEnableDeviceofTask,
            this.btnDisableDeviceOfTask}
            );
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(310, 7);
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.Name = "btnActionOfDeviceTask";
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.Text = "Edit task state";
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Segoe UI", 10F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular);
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(21, 66, 139);
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent; 
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(136, 24);
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.TabIndex = 77;
            this.btnActionOfDeviceTask.Enabled = false;

[Stefan]

Hi Wen,

Thank you for writing.

To change the font of the text box area of the control, you should use the Font property of the control:

Font f = new Font("Arial", 17);
radDropDownList1.Font = f;

To change the font in the drop down, you need to use the VisualItemFormatting event:

void radDropDownList1_VisualListItemFormatting(object sender, VisualItemFormattingEventArgs args)
{
    args.VisualItem.Font = f;
}

Font f = new Font("Arial", 17);

If needed you can also use the AutoSizeItems property of the control, in order to allow them to size themselves according to the currently used font.

More information about the items formatting is available here: http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/dropdown-and-listcontrol-dropdownlist-customizing-items.html.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Stefan
Telerik

 

 

[Ryan]

I just downloaded the demo for WinForms control put a RadDropDownButton on a form and used the designer to change the font property size to 16 points.

Whether in the designer or at runtime, the font size on the button does not change.

What am I missing?

[Stefan]

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for writing.

It seems that in my previous post I mixed RadDropDownButton with RadDropDownList. Here is how to set the Font of the former:

button.DropDownButtonElement.ActionButton.Font = new Font("Arial", 18);

I have also added a feedback item for this, in order to allow font change via the Font property of the control: http://feedback.telerik.com/Project/154/Feedback/Details/131922.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Stefan
Telerik