Custom Skins and Command Icons

[Kevin Warnke]

When using a built-in skin the command icons (edit, delete, etc.) are automatically pulled properly through the WebResource.axd handler.

However, when you change your skin to a custom skin, it just starts using URLs like "delete.gif" and "edit.gif" which of course do not exist in the folder of the user control that contains the grid.

What is the CORRECT way to update the skin so that the command icons are properly displayed based on the images located in the skin's folder?

Thanks,
Kevin

[Dimo]

Hello Kevin,

You can set ImagesPath for the RadGrid and the control will start taking all the image button URLs from that location. The images must have specific names, listed here:

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grdskins.html

Kind regards,
Dimo
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[Tom]

Just a note to help others (and of course open to correction/clarification from Telerik)...

I'm not very experienced with using Skins, and after attempting to set the RadGrid's ImagesPath in a couple other places I found that the place that worked for me was within the RadGrid markup, e.g.
        <telerik:RadGrid ID="MyRadGrid" Skin="MySkin" ImagesPath="~/MyImages/Grid/" ...

(I had tried setting it in the .skin definition and from the codebehind, but the graphics such as paging arrows did not display.)

Note that our application implements dynamic loading of web user controls within a RadTabStrip-controlled RadMultiPage, as illustrated in one of the Telerik demos.  These web user controls each contain a RadGrid, and we wanted to apply our custom skin -- slight modification of Telerik's WebBlue -- to those RadGrids.

--Tom

[Dimo]

Hi Tom,

The ImagesPath property should work no matter how you set it - declaratively, programmatically or in a theme. Please double-check your code and send us a simple demo if you need further assistance.

Kind regards,
Dimo
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[Gail]

Can the RadGrid ImagesPath be set globally (like EnableEmbeddedSkins, etc. in web.config) or am I required to set it seperately for each RadGrid that I create?

Thank you