Radform - Setting Form BackColor only works in DesignTime?

[Duane]

Hi Guys,

I have an issue where I am trying to set the BackColor property of a RadForm to a paler blue than the default. It displays fine in DesignTime, but in runtime it reverts back to the standar mid blue.

Please advise what I am doing wrong? Is it something to do with the theme? If so how do I change or dsiable this?

Best regards,
Duane.

[Richard Slade]

Hi Duane,

I'd advise using the Visual Style Builder to do this. It's easy to use and you can build on your style as you need to.

Here are some links that may help:
blog post on VSB
VSB Overview
Unstanding the VSB interface

hope this helps
Richard

[Duane]

Thanks Richard, I'll take a look.

[Richard Slade]

No problem. If you find that this has helped, please remember to mark as answer.

Many thanks
Richard

[Duane]

Hi Richard,

So looking at the links you sent (except last link did not return a page for me)....
 
Am I correct in assuming that I would need to add a style manager on to EVERY single form? Is there no way to set this globally for the whole application? I ask as we have over 250 forms in just one of the applications. Another has well over 100...

Best regards,
Duane.

[Richard Slade]

Hello,

These further links should help.

Using a default theme for the entire application
Adding custom theme components

hope that helps
Richard

[Duane]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for those links, they look like theyshould help...

Currently though when I drop my custom theme on the form, the theme name is not visible for any of the controls.

Bets regards,
Duane.

[Stefan]

Hello Duane,

Thank you for writing.

Dropping the theme over the form will not load it in your project unless this theme is wrapped in a component as described here. If you are using a tssp file which is not wrapped, please follow the instructions provided at the bottom of the help article Saving and Loading Theme files.

Should you need any additional assistance, do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely yours,
Stefan
the Telerik team

[Duane]

Hi Stefan,

As per your first link, the theme was wrapped in a component, and placed in the toolbox and dropped on the form's component area from the toolbox. However the theme was still not visible in the "ThemeName" property for any controls or forms that the theme was valid for. Due to time concerns I have siince given up on that approach and we now have the theme as an embedded resource in the project, and use a RadThemeManager on the first form that is opened when the application runs to apply the theme to the whole application. I'm sure this has a slight hit on performance but we will have to live with that. The only downside to this is when we are in design-time, we have to open that form first before we can see any of the theming on any of the other forms and / or controls.

Your second link does not work for me, but thanks anyway.

Best regards,
Duane.


Edited: For spello and more detail.

[Stefan]

Hello Duane, 

Thank you for your reply.

I am glad to hear that you have managed to solve this issue. I will check whether our KB article needs to be updated further. The last link that did not work for you was to an help article which describes how to set a theme application at runtime when using .tssp files. You can navigate to this article by opening our help page >> Tools >> Visual Style Builder >> Working with Visual Style Builder >> Saving and Loading theme files. 

I hope you find this information helpful. If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to open a new support ticket/forum thread.

All the best,
Stefan
the Telerik team