RadGalleryElement without RibbonBar

[Juergen Holzer]

Hello!

I want to use the RadGalleryElement on a Standard RadForm. Does anybody know how to extract/use the RadGalleryElement without a RibbonBar? Or maybe the RibbonBarGroup without a RibbonBar?

Thanks for any help!
Regards
Juergen

[Stefan]

Hi Juergen Holzer,

Thank you for contacting us. 

The usage of the elements you concern outside the controls that they are designed for is not s possible scenario. If you want to share what exactly you are trying to achieve, I may be able to suggest a RadControl that can suit your needs.

All the best,
Stefan
the Telerik team

[Juergen Holzer]

Hello Stefan!

Thank you for your answer!

I'm using a Standard Windows Form FlowLayoutPanel. This is fitting perfectly my needs. (Adding Controls add runtime, side-by-side and only vertical scrolling). But the Scrollbar doesn't fit to the overall control look. Maybe you can tell me an alternative RadControl to FlowLayoutPanel.

Thank you!
Kind Regards
Juergen

[Nikolay]

Hi Juergen,

Thank you for getting back to us.

For this scenario you can put your FlowLayoutPanel instance in a RadScrollablePanel. This will allow you to get the flowlayout behavior in a combination with the RadControls look and feel.

I am attaching a sample project which demonstrates the implementation. I hope this helps. If you have additional questions, feel free to contact us.

Best wishes,
Nikolay
the Telerik team

[Juergen Holzer]

Hello Nikolay!

Thanks for your perfect solution! It's working how I wanted.

But maybe you can give me some background:

1. Why do I have to use the Control_Added Event for resizing the flowlayoutpanel and not autosize? I know just setting autosize to true doesn't work, you have to set all anchors of the flowlayoutpanel, to get it growing. But no scrollbars are shown.
2. Why setting autosize on the ScrollablePanel outside the designer?

Thank you for your help so far!
Kind regards
Juergen

[Nikolay]

Hello Juergen,

The behavior described in p.1) comes from the standard .NET Windows Forms layouts. You can experience the same behavior if you place your FlowLayoutPanel in a standard Panel. This is why I am manually recalculating the size of the FlowLayoutPanel on each added control.

I have set the AutoScroll of the RadScrollablePanel programmatically just for demonstration purposes. You can set it at design-time if you want to do so.

Sincerely yours,
Nikolay
the Telerik team