Eliminate Border

[Tony]

How do I completely eliminate the border for a RadTextBox?  This is, a RadTextBox that looks like a label.

Thank you.

[Martin Vasilev]

Hello Tony,

Thank you for the question.

You could hide the border of RadTextBox control by setting BorderPrimitive's visibility property to Collapsed:

(this.radTextBox1.TextBoxElement.Children[2] as BorderPrimitive).Visibility = ElementVisibility.Collapsed;

Do not hesitate to contact me again if you have other questions.
 

Kind regards,
Martin Vasilev
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[Tony]

I have tried to implement what you gave me.  The system does not recognize BorderPrimitive.  This may be because I am using VB .Net.

Could you give me the syntax for this action for VB .Net and tell me if I need to include another namespace.  I am using 

Imports

 

Telerik.WinControls.UI

 

Imports

 

Telerik.WinControls

Thank You

 

[Martin Vasilev]

Hi Tony,

Thank you for getting back to me.

The BorderPrimitive is located in Telerik.WinControls.Primitives namespace. Please, review the code below in VB.Net:
 

Imports Telerik.WinControls.Primitives
'....

(TryCast(Me.radTextBox3.TextBoxElement.Children(2), BorderPrimitive)).Visibility = ElementVisibility.Collapsed

To convert C# code to VB.Net you could use code converter tool provided from Telerik:
http://codechanger.com/

Hope this is useful to you. Contact me again if you need additional assistance.
 

Regards,
Martin Vasilev
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[Tony]

That worked great!  I tried to use that echnique to make the border of the ComboBox to disappear.  It seems to be setting the TextBoxItem border invisible in the code, but the border remains.  Could the be another setting to accomplish this with a ComboBox?

Thanks

[Martin Vasilev]

Hello Tony,

Thank you for the question.

You could use the similar approach for RadComboBox. Please review the code-block below as example:

TryCast(Me.radComboBox1.ComboBoxElement.Children(1), BorderPrimitive).Visibility = Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed

All the best,
Martin Vasilev
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[Tony]

It's good to know I was doing it right, but that still didn't get rid of the border.

Here is what I am doing to make the Combobox look like a label:

 

arrowButton = CType(theControl.ComboBoxElement.Children(2).Children(1), RadArrowButtonElement)

 

 

arrowButton.Visibility = ElementVisibility.Collapsed

 

 

textPortion = CType(theControl.ComboBoxElement.TextBoxElement.Children(2), BorderPrimitive)

 

 

textPortion.Visibility = ElementVisibility.Collapsed

 

 

TryCast(theControl.ComboBoxElement.Children(1), BorderPrimitive).Visibility = ElementVisibility.Collapsed

I am getting something that looks very much like a border around the text portion.

Thanks

 

[Martin Vasilev]

Hi Tony,

Thank you for writing.

To achieve label look for the RadComboBox you have to set appropriate BackColors for each visual element. Please, review the code-block below as an example:
 

TryCast(combo.ComboBoxElement.Children(2).Children(1), RadArrowButtonElement).Visibility = Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed
TryCast(combo.ComboBoxElement.Children(1), BorderPrimitive).Visibility = Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed
TryCast(combo.ComboBoxElement.Children(0), FillPrimitive).BackColor = Color.Transparent
TryCast(combo.ComboBoxElement.Children(0), FillPrimitive).GradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid
TryCast(combo.ComboBoxElement.Children(0), FillPrimitive).NumberOfColors = 1

TryCast(combo.ComboBoxElement.Children(2).Children(0).Children(0), RadTextBoxItem).BackColor = SystemColors.Control

Also, you could find an example project as attachment to this message - I hope it will be useful for you. If you have other questions, do not hesitate to contact me again.

Kind regards,
Martin Vasilev
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[Tony]

Thanks, that worked.  I appreciate you sticking with me.