Help Deciding on Control

[Mark]

Hey Everyone

I need help deciding which control would be best for a design I've been given.  I need a control similar to a combo box or drop down in that a button on the right will be used to expand the control.  However, the content of the control will have multiple items on each line.  The attached images should explain a little better.  The expanded contents should float over the other controls on the screen; not push them down.

Help!

Thanks
Mark

[Tina Stancheva]

Hello Mark,

We don't have such a control in particular but you can use the RadSplitButton as a container for it. Then you can define the SplitButton's Content as a WrapPanel or ItemsControl so that it can display the list of items. And in the DropDownContent you can create a custom panel that can display the same or different items and the additional information.

You can also have a look at the RadRibbonGallery control that is part of the RadRibbonView collection of controls as its structure is similar to what you described.

Regards,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Mark]

Thanks!  The SplitButton works out very well.  I was using the Expander, but the button was not positioned correctly.  The SplitButton takes care of that problem.

I ended up using the Content and DropdownContent using Grids and it works nicely.

I have a question now, though.  The objects in the DropDownContent have a MouseOver event that attempts to set the cursor to a hand.  When using the Expander, this worked.  However, when placed in the DropDownContent, it does not.  The cursor stays as an arrow.  I have checked and the MouseOver event is, in fact, firing - which is good.

I should mention that this is all in a UserControl.  The code for setting the cursor is one line:  this.Cursor = Cursors.Hand;

Is there another way to set the cursor?

[EDIT]  Never mind!  I answered my own question.  using Mouse.OverrideCursor instead of this.Cursor works perfectly.