Reading values from Theme

[David]

I'd like to programmaticly read a value from a theme. I've created the following item:

       <Telerik.WinControls.Styles.XmlRepositoryItem ItemType="Gradient" DisplayName="MyNormalControlColor" Key="MyNormalControlColor" Capacity="4">
        <XmlPropertySetting Property="Telerik.WinControls.VisualElement.BackColor" Value="0, 0, 0" />
        <XmlPropertySetting Property="Telerik.WinControls.Primitives.FillPrimitive.GradientStyle" Value="Solid" />
        <XmlPropertySetting Property="Telerik.WinControls.Primitives.FillPrimitive.NumberOfColors" Value="1" />
      </Telerik.WinControls.Styles.XmlRepositoryItem>

If I'm in my code (C#), any idea how to read that value out of the theme to use it when drawing?


Thanks.

[Jack]

Hello David,

You can do this by using the new theme API introduced in our latest release - Q2 2012. Here is a sample:

Theme theme = ThemeRepository.FindTheme("MyTheme");
if (theme != null)
{
    StyleRepository repository = theme.FindRepository("MyNormalControlColor");
    foreach (PropertySetting setting in repository.Settings)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1};", setting.Name, setting.Value);
    }
}

In the code above we assume that the theme is already loaded in memory. If this is not the case you can load the theme by using the following code:

Theme theme = Theme.ReadTSSP(@"c:\MyTheme.tssp");
ThemeRepository.Add(theme);

If you have further questions, do not hesitate to write us.
 
All the best,
Jack
the Telerik team