Change colors

[Pan hal]

We use RadMenu in our app and our customer wants the colors to be changed.

Can you please send the code to change the colors for different states of radtabitems

For Normal state -  background should be transparent

For Pressed and MouseOver - background should be darkblue

For disabled state- it should be light gray.

This is urgent requirement.  Immediate response is appreciated.

Thanks

[Dani]

Hello Pan hal,

Thank you for your question.

Please, check the following useful article regarding your inquiry:
http://www.telerik.com/help/silverlight/radmenu-styling-and-appearance-styling-radmenuitem.html

Regards,
Dani
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[Pan hal]

Thanks for the response. This is not helpful to us. We have some problem in opening up the expression blend.
Can you please send me the code.

[Dani]

Hello Pan hal,

Please find attached a working example of a RadMenu with custom colors.

Note that the RadMenuItem normally includes 4 separate templates - TopLevelItemTemplate, TopLevelHeaderTemplate, SubmenuItemTemplate, SubmenuHeaderTemplate. Each of those templates employs a common chrome, meaning colors are shared between the 4 templates.

Therefore in order to change the colors to your own liking, you will need to edit the chrome (in the case of the attached example, each of the 4 templates uses the ButtonChrome). When you open the project in Expression Blend and go to the Resources tab, you will find all editable colors.

Used versions: Silverlight 4, Expression Blend 4.

Kind regards,
Dani
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[Pan hal]

Thanks. Do you mind sending as.vb project as I cannot open C# project here.

[Dani]

Hi Pan hal,

Attached is the same application as a VB project.

Sincerely yours,
Dani
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[Pan hal]

I am not able to run the project. I get errors. Here are few. Can you please send me an easy way to set the style for Menu.

Error 1 The type 'telerik:Office_BlueTheme' was not found. Verify that you are not missing an assembly reference and that all referenced assemblies have been built. C:\SourceCode_2009\RAMWare\Forum\193349_radmenu-colorchange-vb\RadMenu_ColorChange_VB\SilverlightApplication1\MainPage.xaml 20 10 SilverlightApplication1

Error 7 The attachable property 'Theme' was not found in type 'StyleManager'. C:\Forum\193349_radmenu-colorchange-vb\RadMenu_ColorChange_VB\SilverlightApplication1\MainPage.xaml 925 230 SilverlightApplication1

Error 8 The type 'telerik:RadMenu' was not found. Verify that you are not missing an assembly reference and that all referenced assemblies have been built. C:\Forum\193349_radmenu-colorchange-vb\RadMenu_ColorChange_VB\SilverlightApplication1\MainPage.xaml 970 4 SilverlightApplication1


Error 9 The type 'telerik:RadMenuItem' was not found. Verify that you are not missing an assembly reference and that all referenced assemblies have been built. C:\Forum\193349_radmenu-colorchange-vb\RadMenu_ColorChange_VB\SilverlightApplication1\MainPage.xaml 971 5 SilverlightApplication1

Error 19 The tag 'Office_BlueTheme' does not exist in XML namespace 'http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation'. C:\Forum\193349_radmenu-colorchange-vb\RadMenu_ColorChange_VB\SilverlightApplication1\MainPage.xaml 20 10 SilverlightApplication1


Error 20 The property 'Theme' does not exist on the type 'ButtonChrome' in the XML namespace 'http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation'. C:\Forum\193349_radmenu-colorchange-vb\RadMenu_ColorChange_VB\SilverlightApplication1\MainPage.xaml 739 256 SilverlightApplication1

Error 26 The tag 'RadMenu' does not exist in XML namespace 'http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation'. C:\Forum\193349_radmenu-colorchange-vb\RadMenu_ColorChange_VB\SilverlightApplication1\MainPage.xaml 970 4 SilverlightApplication1


Error 29 The tag 'RadMenuItem' does not exist in XML namespace 'http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation'. C:\Forum\193349_radmenu-colorchange-vb\RadMenu_ColorChange_VB\SilverlightApplication1\MainPage.xaml 973 6 SilverlightApplication1

[Kaloyan]

Hello Pan hal,

All you have to do is to add an assembly references to the listed dlls.

Best wishes,
Kaloyan
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[Pan hal]

I did add the assembly references but no luck. Can you send it again with correct assembly references 

[Dani]

Hello Pan hal,

You only need to add the assembly references to the project. Attached is the project with the needed references in it.

All the best,
Dani
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[Pan hal]

Hi, Thanks for the project. We are using telerikNavigation:RadMenu. The one you sent is not working for this control.
Can you please change it to TelerikNavigation:RadMenu and send me the project again.

[Dani]

Hi Pan hal,

All you need to do is add the following namespace to all other namespaces in UserControl tag:

xmlns:telerikNavigation="clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Controls;assembly=Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation"

Also, make sure you use it when declaring the RadMenu like so:

<telerikNavigation:RadMenu HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="117,204,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" ItemContainerStyle="{StaticResource RadMenuItemStyle1}" ClickToOpen="True" Background="Transparent">
            <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Item 1" ItemContainerStyle="{StaticResource RadMenuItemStyle1}">
                <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Sub Item 1"/>
                <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Sub Item 2" IsEnabled="False"/>
                <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Sub Item 3"/>
                <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Sub Item 4"/>
                <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Sub Item 5"/>
            </telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem>
            <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Item 2" IsEnabled="False" ItemContainerStyle="{StaticResource RadMenuItemStyle1}">
                <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Sub Item 3"/>
                <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Sub Item 4"/>
                <telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem Header="Sub Item 5"/>
            </telerikNavigation:RadMenuItem>
        </telerikNavigation:RadMenu>

Regards,
Dani
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