How to Use Transparent Theme with Docking

[Kelly]

Hi,
I have a RadGridView inside a Grid, inside a RadBusyIndicator, inside a Grid. All of this is set as the content of a RadDocumentPane. The control that contains the RadDocking control has an image set as its background.  I'm using the Transparent theme. The document pane seems to be VERY slightly transparent when the pane is docked, but 100% opaque when the pane is floating. This is shown in the attached file "have.png". Your demo exhibits the same behavior.

I want the whole works to be transparent, as shown in "want.png", which is just a RadGridView inside a Border with its background set to an image. I've set everything I can get my hands on to Transparent, but I can't make the docking pane transparent.

How do I accomplish this please?

Thank you,

Kelly

[Yana]

Hi Kelly,

You should customize the Transparent theme in order to achieve the needed approach.  I've attached a simple example where I've changed only the following styles:

<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ToolWindow_Background" Color="Transparent" />
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ToolWindow_OuterBorderBrush" Color="Transparent" />
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ToolWindow_InnerBorderBrush" Color="Transparent" />

Please download the attachment and give it a try.

Kind regards,
Yana
the Telerik team

[Kelly]

Thank you, Yana - that did it.

Kelly