Windows7 Theme in Ribbon distorted at runtime

[Philippe]

Hi,

I've got a winform that inherits from "Inherits Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadRibbonForm"  with a ribboncontrol on it, when designing in studio 2010 it looks great as it should be, but at runtime, the visual representation is weird. Did I forgot something? I've included both screenshots.

I used an existing project to start with.

Kind regards;
Philippe

[Richard Slade]

Hello,

My first impression is that you may have not provided the theme class name in the inherited control. Please take a look at this knowledge base article which details inheriting from RadControls
If you need more assistance though, please let me know
Richard

[Philippe]

Richard,

I've found the culprit, during testing I'd read somewhere that I had to set the themename after initializing with this line:

Telerik.WinControls.ThemeResolutionService.ApplicationThemeName = "thmWindows7"

With thmWindows7 being an instance of a theme I dragged on the form; this caused the freaky visual style. When I removed it, it works great. The Windows7 theme name is now only selected in the ThemeName Property of the form.
Thanks for a quick response !

Philippe

[Richard Slade]

No problem. Glad you have found a solution
Richard

[Peter]

Hello,

I am happy to hear that you guys managed to resolve the issue. You can read more about the ApplicationTheme name here.

Kind regards,
Peter
the Telerik team