"Help" window action?

[Hans]

Are the any plans to add a "Help" action to the window?

This is something we are using with all our application, not just for windows, but for panels too.

See example of what Ext JS has: http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/4.1.3/#!/api/Ext.panel.Tool-cfg-type

regards.

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hi Hans,


There is no built in help action, but the Window widget allows adding unlimited number of custom actions, which could be customized according to the current needs. I prepared a small example, which demonstrates how to add a custom help action and specify a background icon for it.

I wish you a great day!

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik

[Hans]

> I prepared a small example, which demonstrates how to add a custom help action and specify a background icon for it.

Thank you very much for your example.
1. On Chrome looks nice.
2 .On FF looks wrong, as another icon is displayed.
3. On IE8 looks horrible.
4. The same is true for the examples from your website.

See a screenshot for each situation.

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hello Hans,


It seems that Firefox have issues with scoped styles. Please remove the scoped attribute from the styles tag in the example. The triangle icon that was shown is the default fallback icon if no other is specified.

Regarding the issues on IE 8, I was unable to reproduce them neither in the example, nor in the demos site. I am attaching a screenshot to demonstrate how the demo looks on IE8 on my side.

 

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik

[Hans]

> Regarding the issues on IE 8, I was unable to reproduce them neither in
> the example, nor in the demos site. I am attaching a screenshot to
> demonstrate how the demo looks on IE8 on my side.
I'm able to reproduce this however on several machines: WinXP + IE8 or Win7 + IE8   :(.

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hi Hans,


I can't help much on this topic if I don't reproduce the issue on my side. As a shot in the dark you could try adding the following CSS styles to the page.
E.g.

.k-icon, .k-state-disabled .k-icon, .k-column-menu .k-sprite
{
    opacity: 1;
}

If the problem is still persisting, could you please isolate it in a small sample project and send it to me to inspect it locally and assist you further?

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik

[Hans]

> I can't help much on this topic if I don't reproduce the issue on my side.
true.

> If the problem is still persisting, could you please isolate it in a
> small sample project and send it to me to inspect it locally and assist
> you further?
The phenomenon with IE8 is visible on your public site http://demos.kendoui.com/web/window/index.html and also in the example you attached to this  thread.
When hovering with the mouse over the icons however, a correct rendering happens: the same as with Chrome or FF.
This seems to happen on all the computers at work I've tried so far (so not only one is affected by this).

I'll install some virtual machine instances at home with various Win + IE combinations to see if this still happens outside the company as well.

[Hans]

> I can't help much on this topic if I don't reproduce the issue on my side.
I tested with even more IE8 installations (even freshly installed, with XP, with Vista and with Win7 in VMWare)  and on ALL of them the IE8 rendering bug of Window action icons is visible (even with the examples from your official site).

So IMO you should be able to reproduce this issue since after trying in more  than 80 different IE8 instances I found not a single case to correspond your rendering screenshot, but the buggy one I've attached :).

regards.

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hello Hans,


Sorry for the inconvenience. We managed to reproduce the issue in IE8 and it is logged for fixing. As a small sign of gratitude I updated your Telerik points. 

 

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik