Right to Left Arrow Keys Problem

[Arman]

I have a RadPageview in Strip Mode and I want my program to had support a right-to-left language. When I changing the Right-to-Left Property to true it works fine. but when I run my program and use Arrow Keys (Left or Right) it doesn't work correctly. Left key goes to Right and Right key goes to Left. How can I fix it?

[Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Principal]

Hello Arman,

Thank you for writing.

I confirm that arrow keys navigation in RadPageView with RightToLeft support should behave similar to MS TabControl in RightToLeft mode. I have logged it in our Feedback Portal. You can track its progress, subscribe for status changes and add your vote/comment to it on the following link - Feedback Item.

I have also updated your Telerik points.

Currently, the possible solution that I can suggest is to create a custom RadPageViewStripElement and override its IsNextKey and IsPreviousKey methods on a way to reverse the previous/next navigation as follows:  

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    this.radPageView1.RightToLeft = System.Windows.Forms.RightToLeft.Yes;
}

public class CustomPageView : RadPageView
{
    public override string ThemeClassName
    {
        get
        {
            return typeof(RadPageView).FullName;
        }
    }

    protected override RadPageViewElement CreateUI()
    {
        switch (this.ViewMode)
        {
            case PageViewMode.Strip:
                return new CustomRadPageViewStripElement();

            default:
                return base.CreateUI();
        }
    }
}

public class CustomRadPageViewStripElement : RadPageViewStripElement
{
    public CustomRadPageViewStripElement()
    {
    }

    protected override Type ThemeEffectiveType
    {
        get
        {
            return typeof(RadPageViewStripElement);
        }
    }

    protected override bool IsNextKey(Keys key)
    {
        if (this.RightToLeft)
        {
            if (key == Keys.Left)
            {
                return true;
            }
            else
            {
                return false;
            }
        }

        return base.IsNextKey(key);
    }

    protected override bool IsPreviousKey(Keys key)
    {
        if (this.RightToLeft)
        {
            if (key == Keys.Right)
            {
                return true;
            }
            else
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return base.IsPreviousKey(key);
    }
}

I hope this information helps. Should you have further questions, I would be glad to help.

Regards,
Desislava
Telerik