RadTabStrip Slide Show

[Filipe]

Hi,

Is that possible to rotate RadTabStrip tabs automatically like a slide show?

[Princy]

Hello Flippe,

I am not quite sure about your requirement and I suppose you want the rotator functionality.
If that is the requirement Telerik provides RadRotator control. Take a look at the following demo and documentation for more on this control.
Overview.
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/rotator/examples/overview/defaultcs.aspx.

Please elaborate your scenario if it doesn't help.

Thanks,
Princy.

[Filipe]

Hi,

Yes i want something like rotator but with tabs. In each 5 seconds (per example) switch to the next tab automatically. Is it possible with RadTabSrtip or RadRotator?

[Peter]

Hi Filipe,

Yes, that should be possible. As you might have noticed, RadRotator has an ItemTemplate which allows you to specify any content, including RadTabstrip and multipageview.


Best wishes,
Peter
the Telerik team

[improwise]

Picking up on this, I guess what the original poster was after was to have the RadRotator switch active tab each 5 second (or something like that), and I guess that won't happen by itself just because you put it into a RadRotator, right? If not, any recommendations on how to actually achieve this? Is there some kind of "Rotate()" event which could be used? Or is there another way, I guess it all come down to implementing some kind of timer which fires events in which you could then just move to the next tab.

[improwise]

Can answer this one myself, the trick is to use a RadAjaxTimer, which will "postback" to the server and then you can just do something like this:

        if (radTabStrip.SelectedIndex < (radTabStrip.Tabs.Count - 1))
        {
            radTabStrip.SelectedIndex += 1;
        }
        else
        {
            radTabStrip.SelectedIndex = 0;
        }

One thing though, it the Code example from Telerik it is said that the RadAjaxTimer needs to be in a Panel to work, but don't seem to notice any difference if it is in a panel or not, ie it works in both.

[Peter]

Hello Patrik,

Thank you for sharing your solution in the forum.

I assume you have used Ajaxify Timer demo for reference and probably you refer to this part of the description -

There is a bit tricky part here -- one cannot add the Timer control directly to the AJAX settings as updated control. Instead, just wrap the timer in a container like ASP:Panel and set the container as updated control.

This condition is needed only if you want to ajaxify controls on the page using RadAjaxManager. I imagine your case is different and hence you don't need the above requirement.


Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

[improwise]

Hi Peter,

We are using the RadAjaxManager