RadPanel border visibility

[Toby]

Would it be possible in the next release to expose the panel border visibility at design time in the properties window, rather than having to navigate through "Edit UI Elements" (or via code). I have a lot of panerls where I don't want to see the border at run time but do need to see it sometimes at design time.

 

Thanks

[Dinko | Tech Support Engineer]

Hi Toby,

You are right that you need to use the Edit UI Elements window. What I can suggest instead is to create a custom class that derives from RadPanel. Inside you can expose your own property which can get/set the Visibility property of the BorderPrimitive. Then you can replace the panels in your application with the custom ones. This way the custom property will appear in the Properties Window.

public class CustomPanel : RadPanel
{
    public override string ThemeClassName
    {
        get
        {
            return typeof(RadPanel).FullName;
        }
    }
    [DefaultValue(ElementVisibility.Visible)]
    public ElementVisibility BoderVisibility
    {
        get
        {
            return this.PanelElement.PanelBorder.Visibility;
        }
        set
        {
            this.PanelElement.PanelBorder.Visibility = value;
        }

    }
}

Regards,
Dinko
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