Richard Slade
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Richard Slade
asked on 09 Jul 2009, 10:40 AM
Hello,
Our MDI Application has a RadDock in the main workspace.
The theme has been reset.
I allow the users to choose a theme for the application, and on choosing the theme, all of the controls have the theme applied correctly.
If the user choosers Office2007Silver, then the background colour of the RadDock changes correctly to a silver/grey colour.
On all other themes, the background colour stays the default blue.
I'd like it to change together with the theme choice correctly. My available themes to choose are:
Office2007Silver
Default
Breeze
Desert
Vista
If this is not possible, I'd like to just set the background colour to a default of my choice, but choosing a new background colour for raddock (or the document container or dock panel) doesn't seem to make any difference.
Thanks
Our MDI Application has a RadDock in the main workspace.
The theme has been reset.
I allow the users to choose a theme for the application, and on choosing the theme, all of the controls have the theme applied correctly.
If the user choosers Office2007Silver, then the background colour of the RadDock changes correctly to a silver/grey colour.
On all other themes, the background colour stays the default blue.
I'd like it to change together with the theme choice correctly. My available themes to choose are:
Office2007Silver
Default
Breeze
Desert
Vista
If this is not possible, I'd like to just set the background colour to a default of my choice, but choosing a new background colour for raddock (or the document container or dock panel) doesn't seem to make any difference.
Thanks
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Hello Richard,
Currently we support Office2007Silver and ControlDefault themes from the list you provided.
We will consider adding Breeze, Vista and Desert themes to Q2 2009 SP1 if we manage to implement the already promised functionality and fixes.
Regards,
Victor
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Currently we support Office2007Silver and ControlDefault themes from the list you provided.
We will consider adding Breeze, Vista and Desert themes to Q2 2009 SP1 if we manage to implement the already promised functionality and fixes.
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Victor
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Richard Slade
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answered on 10 Jul 2009, 09:31 AM
Thanks for your reply Victor. However, this doesn't explain why I can't seem to set a default back colour on the control. If I could at least set the default back colour to grey, then it would fit in with all themes, rather than the blue that it is currently set to.
Many thanks
Richard
Many thanks
Richard
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Hi Richard Slade,
The back color you are seeing is the back color of the main document container. You can currently change the color through code like so:
Note that the MainDocumentContainer property is set to Browsable.Never because the property has a setter, which is required by the serialization mechanism. It has been hidden to prevent users from changing the container dynamically and thus causing themselves trouble.
Sincerely yours,
Victor
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The back color you are seeing is the back color of the main document container. You can currently change the color through code like so:
this.radDock1.MainDocumentContainer.BackColor = Color.Gray; |
Note that the MainDocumentContainer property is set to Browsable.Never because the property has a setter, which is required by the serialization mechanism. It has been hidden to prevent users from changing the container dynamically and thus causing themselves trouble.
Sincerely yours,
Victor
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Richard Slade
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answered on 14 Jul 2009, 04:16 PM
Hello Victor,
This still doesn't work for me.
Example, I have
RadForm BackColor set to AppWorkspace
RadDock.BackColor set to Transparent
DockPanel BackColor set to Transparent
DocumentContainer BackColor set to Transparent
I have tried setting colors for all of the RadDock items to no affect.
I have also set the RadDock.MainDocumentContainer.BackColor (which I understand is the same as DocumentContainer) BackColor to Gray programmatically which still has no affect.
Richard
This still doesn't work for me.
Example, I have
RadForm BackColor set to AppWorkspace
RadDock.BackColor set to Transparent
DockPanel BackColor set to Transparent
DocumentContainer BackColor set to Transparent
I have tried setting colors for all of the RadDock items to no affect.
I have also set the RadDock.MainDocumentContainer.BackColor (which I understand is the same as DocumentContainer) BackColor to Gray programmatically which still has no affect.
Richard
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Hello Richard Slade,
Please accept my apologies. When I used the latest version the suggested approach stopped working. In order to set the back color, you should do the following:
Let us know if we can help with anything else.
Greetings,
Victor
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Please accept my apologies. When I used the latest version the suggested approach stopped working. In order to set the back color, you should do the following:
this.radDock1.MainDocumentContainer.BackColor = Color.Pink; |
RadElement el = this.radDock1.MainDocumentContainer.RootElement.Children[0].Children[0]; |
(el as FillPrimitive).BackColor = this.BackColor; |
Greetings,
Victor
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Richard Slade
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answered on 21 Jul 2009, 10:11 AM
Thanks.
For anyone else, this translates into VB as
For anyone else, this translates into VB as
Dim element As Telerik.WinControls.RadElement = Me.DocumentContainer.RootElement.Children(0).Children(0) | |
DirectCast(element, Telerik.WinControls.Primitives.FillPrimitive).BackColor = Drawing.Color.Silver |
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Richard Slade
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answered on 22 Jul 2009, 01:38 PM
Thought someone else might also be interested in this.
The rad dock doesn't seem to accept all themes, and the background of a RadDock can sometimes look out of place with the current theme.
For us, we have an MDI Application, with AutoDetect MDI Children set to true. When we change the theme to anything but Office2007Silver, or Default, then the background color can look a bit odd.(stays the default blue)
to get around this, set your background color of your form, rad dock, maindocumentcontainer and dock panel to transparent. then pick up the backcolor changed event of one of the controls that will have it's color changed as you want it.
Here, I am picking up the back color of my main menu
Hope that helps someone
Richard
The rad dock doesn't seem to accept all themes, and the background of a RadDock can sometimes look out of place with the current theme.
For us, we have an MDI Application, with AutoDetect MDI Children set to true. When we change the theme to anything but Office2007Silver, or Default, then the background color can look a bit odd.(stays the default blue)
to get around this, set your background color of your form, rad dock, maindocumentcontainer and dock panel to transparent. then pick up the backcolor changed event of one of the controls that will have it's color changed as you want it.
Here, I am picking up the back color of my main menu
Private Sub MainMenu_BackColorChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ |
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MainMenu.BackColorChanged |
Dim element As Telerik.WinControls.RadElement = Me.DocumentContainer.RootElement.Children(0).Children(0) |
DirectCast(element, Telerik.WinControls.Primitives.FillPrimitive).BackColor = Me.MainMenu.BackColor |
End Sub |
Hope that helps someone
Richard
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Joris
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answered on 19 Jan 2010, 11:24 AM
Hello,
Thanks for this background tip.
It works.
But can I change the background where the tabs are also?
Thanks in advance
Joris
Thanks for this background tip.
It works.
But can I change the background where the tabs are also?
Thanks in advance
Joris
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Hi Joris,
Currently, you can change the color of the TabStripElements by manually editing the RadDock xml theme files.
A RadDock theme contains several xml theme files for the different RadDock parts. I am attaching a sample project to demonstrate this. Here are the changes which you need to make:
1. Open TabStrip.xml and find the following code snippet:
2. Change the BackColor according to your preferences and Insert the following line in the PropertySettings block:
The result code block is:
The same operations should be performed in this code block:
For your convenience, I made the necessary changes in the TabStrip.xml. You can just replace the Red color with your own color.
I hope this helps. If you have additional questions, feel free to contact me.
Kind regards,
Nikolay
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Currently, you can change the color of the TabStripElements by manually editing the RadDock xml theme files.
A RadDock theme contains several xml theme files for the different RadDock parts. I am attaching a sample project to demonstrate this. Here are the changes which you need to make:
1. Open TabStrip.xml and find the following code snippet:
<
XmlPropertySettingGroup
>
<
PropertySettings
>
<
XmlPropertySetting
Property
=
"Telerik.WinControls.VisualElement.BackColor"
Value
=
"191, 219, 254"
/>
<
XmlPropertySetting
Property
=
"Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadTabStripElement.ItemsOffset"
Value
=
"1"
/>
</
PropertySettings
>
<
Selectors
>
<
XmlTypeSelector
ElementType
=
"Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadTabStripElement"
/>
</
Selectors
>
</
XmlPropertySettingGroup
>
2. Change the BackColor according to your preferences and Insert the following line in the PropertySettings block:
<
XmlPropertySetting
Property
=
"Telerik.WinControls.RadElement.ShouldPaint"
Value
=
"True"
/>
The result code block is:
<
XmlPropertySettingGroup
>
<
PropertySettings
>
<
XmlPropertySetting
Property
=
"Telerik.WinControls.VisualElement.BackColor"
Value
=
"Red"
/>
<
XmlPropertySetting
Property
=
"Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadTabStripElement.ItemsOffset"
Value
=
"1"
/>
<
XmlPropertySetting
Property
=
"Telerik.WinControls.RadElement.ShouldPaint"
Value
=
"True"
/>
</
PropertySettings
>
<
Selectors
>
<
XmlTypeSelector
ElementType
=
"Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadTabStripElement"
/>
</
Selectors
>
</
XmlPropertySettingGroup
>
The same operations should be performed in this code block:
<
XmlPropertySettingGroup
>
<
PropertySettings
>
<
XmlPropertySetting
Property
=
"Telerik.WinControls.VisualElement.BackColor"
Value
=
"191, 219, 254"
/>
<
XmlPropertySetting
Property
=
"Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadTabStripElement.ItemsOffset"
Value
=
"13"
/>
</
PropertySettings
>
<
Selectors
>
<
XmlTypeSelector
ElementType
=
"Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadTabStripElement"
/>
</
Selectors
>
</
XmlPropertySettingGroup
>
For your convenience, I made the necessary changes in the TabStrip.xml. You can just replace the Red color with your own color.
I hope this helps. If you have additional questions, feel free to contact me.
Kind regards,
Nikolay
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