Default font size and family

[Alex Sorokoletov]

Guys, I need to change default font family and size for all text-elements.
I use 2010 Q3 version of your toolkit

<Style x:Key="BaseTextBlockStyle" TargetType="TextBlock">
        <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Arial" />
        <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="12" />
    </Style>
    <Style TargetType="TextBlock" BasedOn="{StaticResource BaseTextBlockStyle}">
    </Style>

All textblocks I use in my XAMLs are okay. But textblocks inside Ribbon are still using Portable User Interface of size 11.

[Tina Stancheva]

Hi Alex Sorokoletov,

If you set a Style with no Key as a UserControl's resource, that style will be applied to all elements of the targeted type in the UserControl. Therefore if you define a UserControl like so:

<UserControl.Resources>
    <Style TargetType="TextBlock">
        <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Arial" />
        <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="12" />
        <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Red" />
    </Style>
</UserControl.Resources>
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <telerik:RadRibbonBar VerticalAlignment="Top">
        <telerik:RadRibbonTab Header="Tab 1">
            <telerik:RadRibbonGroup Header="Group 1">
                <StackPanel>
                    <telerik:RadRibbonButton Content="Button 1" />
                    <telerik:RadRibbonButton Content="Button 2" />
                    <TextBlock Text="TextBlock" />
                </StackPanel>
                <telerik:RadRibbonButton Content="Button 3" />
                <telerik:RadRibbonButton Content="Button 4" />
            </telerik:RadRibbonGroup>
        </telerik:RadRibbonTab>
    </telerik:RadRibbonBar>
    <TextBlock Grid.Row="1"
                VerticalAlignment="Top"
                Text="TextBlock" />

</Grid>

The style defined in the Resources will be applied to all TextBlocks n the UserControl - in this case both TextBlocks should have the same Foreground, FontSize and FontFamily. Give this a try and let us know if it works for you or if I am missing something

Greetings,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Alex Sorokoletov]

With way you provided style is not applied to textblocks in RadContextMenu and RadWindow

[Alex Sorokoletov]

And tooltips

[George]

Hi Alex,


In order to apply the style to all TextBlock controls in your application, I would suggest you to define the style not in the UserControl.Resources, but in the App.xaml.


Best wishes,
George
the Telerik team

[Alex Sorokoletov]

I tried, but it didn't help.

[Pana]

Hello Alex,

We have some ideas of a new theming mechanism that will eventually style TextBlock but it will not be available anytime soon. For now the only solution would be to add Foreground to the controls that have problems.

Regards,
Pana
the Telerik team

[Pana]

Hi Alex,

Also the following blog about the new GroupBox, Label and ToolTip controls and themes may be useful. They will be available in the upcoming beta and official Q1 release. Also the 3 controls are present in Internal builds.

Kind regards,
Pana
the Telerik team