Custom inherited library

[Roberto]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom control library using telerik controls as base clases, and creating a default styleguide based on the default telerik styles for each control.

Basically, what I have (as if I was extending from standard WPF controls) is a ResourceDictionary (Generic.xaml) with a Targeted Style for each Custom Control, using the 'BasedOn' property. Something like this:

<Style BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type ComboBox}}"
       TargetType="{x:Type local:MyComboBox}">
        <Setter Property="Background" Value="Red" />
        <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="DarkGray" />
</Style>

Regrettably, it seems this doesn't work out of the box with telerik, I mean, using RadComboBox as StaticResource. I've also tried using the ThemeResourceKey with no luck:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type local:MyComboBox}"
               BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlackTheme, ElementType=Controls:RadComboBox}}">
    <Setter Property="Background" Value="Red" />
    <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="DarkGray" />
</Style>

The MyComboBox file looks like this:

public class MyComboBox : RadComboBox
{
        static MyComboBox ()
        {
            DefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(MyComboBox), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(MyComboBox)));
        }
}

I also tried overriding the TargetType of the inherited control, again, no luck:

[LocalizabilityAttribute(LocalizationCategory.NeverLocalize)]
[Ambient]
public Type TargetType
{
    get { return typeof (RadComboBox);}
}

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

--

R.

[Pana]

Hello Roberto,

Everything looks cool. Only that for our theming we set DefaultStyleKey here and there... One of the places we do it is OnInitialized. You will need some more code in your class like:

protected override void OnInitialized(EventArgs e)
{
    base.OnInitialized(e); // Here we will set our default style key anyway...
    this.DefaultStyleKey = typeof(MyRadComboBox);
}

You can check the attached project for more details.

Regards,
Panayot
the Telerik team