Disable close button for single tab

[Marius]

We want to show the close button on some tabs in the PageView, but not all. Can the closebutton visibility be specified pr tab, instead of as a property on the parent PageView?

[Emanuel Varga]

Hello Marius,

Sorry about the delay, to achieve this result you can use this method:

private void HideCloseButtonForPage(RadPageViewPage page)
{
    var pageViewStripElement = ((Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadPageViewContentAreaElement)((radPageView1.ViewElement).ContentArea)).Owner as RadPageViewStripElement;
    var stripItem = ((Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadPageViewElement)(pageViewStripElement)).Items.Where(item => item.Page == page).FirstOrDefault();
    if (stripItem != null)
    {
        stripItem.ButtonsPanel.SetValue(LightVisualElement.VisibilityProperty, Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed);
        stripItem.ButtonsPanel.SetDefaultValueOverride(LightVisualElement.VisibilityProperty, Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed);
    }
}

Hope this helps, if you have any other questions or comments, please let me know,

Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

[Emanuel Varga]

Hello again Marius,

I just wanted to ask if the example i provided helped you achieve the desired effect.

If you have any other questions or comments, please let me know,

Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

[Marius]

It worked perfectly, thank you.

[Gustavo]

Hi Emanuel.
I need exactly the same as Marius, I copied the code you post, but is not working for me.
I just debugged the code, line by line, and everyhing seems to be fine. Nothing is null, entering in all code paths, etc.

But the close button is still working at RadPageView level, I mean, for all tabs depending on the RadPageView.ViewElement.StripButtons property settings.

Am I missing something? might be missing a setting at the radpageview properties?

Thanks

Gustavo

[Gustavo]

Hi Emanuel.
On my previous post, I think I was confusing between the RadPageView.ViewElement.StripButton property and the StripElement level.

Now I just set RadPageView.ViewElement.StripButton to "false", and using your code, everything is working perfectly.

Very useful code.

Thanks

Gustavo

[Kirk Couser]

Shouldn't using this line:

SomePageView.ViewElement.ShowItemCloseButton = false;

Set the close button visibility to false?  It is not in my case.

[Richard Slade]

Hello,

This is set to false by default in Strip mode. Setting this to trrue will show a X (close button) on each tab.
Hope that helps
Richard

[Kirk Couser]

I have my page view in strip mode, but the close button still shows regardless that why I asked about that line of code.  I'm using the latest release in Visual Studio 2010 on a .NET 3.5 Windows App.

[Richard Slade]

Kirk,

This will also hide the X on the strip

Me.RadPageView1.ViewElement.Children(0).Children(1).Children(3).Visibility = ElementVisibility.Collapsed

hope that helps
Richard

[Kirk Couser]

That didn't work for me either, both the arrows and close button still show.  I'm using the page view like a wizard with command buttons to cycle through the page views so having those buttons there is confusing the end users of the app.

[Kirk Couser]

Nevermind I figured it out, if you go into designer mode on your page view, drill down into the ViewElement and then set StripButtons to None it will make them go away.

[Chad]

I also wanted to now how to hide specific buttons on a tab. Your suggestion worked:

tabOrder.ViewElement.Children(0).Children(1).Children(3).Visibility = ElementVisibility.Collapsed

Yet I would like to understand it.

The Help file explains basic stuff, and when I search for less traveled topics like this and most others, I get genererated documentation that is of no help.
I have a Page view with a few tabs. What do all these nested collections refer to? How does one go figuring this out?

Edit:

I see the property builder. I think that this is my best shot to understanding the control.

[Richard Slade]

Hi Chad,

RadControls are made up of nested elements (other controls) For exmaple, a radButton would have a border element, a fill primitive element etc.. This is finding the element required to set visibility.

If you go to the Smart Tag of a RadControl and click on Edit UI Elements, then you can see the element hierarchy for the control, and therefore control its properties.

Hope that helps
Richard

[Dobry Zranchev]

Hi Chad,

In addition to Richard's reply I can suggest that you use our RadControlSpy tool. For additional information, please refer to this article.

Regards,
Dobry Zranchev
the Telerik team

[Dan]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but my issue is so close to this that I thought this would be the best place to address it.

I'd like to remove the close box on one individual tab itself (when ShowItemCloseButton = True).  The tab page is created programmatically.  Is this possible?

P.S. I tried the control spy, but it didn't seem to want to pick up any controls on my MDI form.

Thanks,
Dan

[Boryana]

Hello Dan,

Thank you for writing.

Have you tried the following approach:

RadPageViewPage buttonless = new RadPageViewPage();
buttonless.Text = "Buttonless Page";
this.radPageView1.Pages.Add(buttonless);
buttonless.Item.ButtonsPanel.CloseButton.Visibility = Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed;

Once you have added the page to the Pages collection, you can easily navigate to its CloseButton and set its Visibility to collapsed.

Feel free to write back if you have further queries.

Kind regards,
Boryana
the Telerik team

[Dan]

Perfect!  Thanks Boryana!