How to change button style

[Randy Hompesch]

Hi,

I am using a dataform as a rowdetail editor in a gridview.

I have a global resource for changing button colors (not radbuttons). It works great but if I apply that same style to radbuttons, I end up affecting things I don't mean to touch. All I want is change the colors of OK and Cancel button of the RadDataForm. Can someone share an example of how to do this. I've read somewhere that I need to change a template but I have no idea how or, for that matter, where these templates might be.

Thanks ... Ed

 

[Stefan Nenchev]

Hi Ed,

Indeed, modifying the control template of the RadButtons within the RadDataForm would be the way to go here. Generally, the RadButton has different states( for example - the "Disabled" one) so if you need to apply the same background no matter what the state of the button is, you can remove the different VisualStates from the control template. This might lead to not very user-friendly appearance, though. I have attached a sample for your reference. You can use it as a guidance and modify it to achieve the exact behavior you aim at. 

I hope it helps.

Regards,
Stefan Nenchev
Telerik by Progress

[Randy Hompesch]

Hi, this is great. It got me out of the woods ... sort of. The only problem is that I have to apply this styling at the resource level of the form. This means I have to copy and paste for every form. Is there a way to add this to the app resources as a global resource that will only be set once?

Thanks ... Ed

 

[Ivan Ivanov]

Hi,

You can try setting the custom resource dictionary through an attached behavior, which is applied with an implicit style for RadDataForm. I am attaching a modified version of the initial project that illustrates this approach.

Regards,
Ivan Ivanov
Telerik by Progress