Hello, I am evaluating your product to make sure I can get it to work before I buy it and am having some problems making a custom theme in Visual Style Builder. I am working on making a customized combo box and am having two problems:
1) If I put a fill gradient on the RadComboBoxItem->FillPrimitive, it shows up fine in the design and preview images in VSB but it's just a plain white background when the combo drop-down appears in the application. When I go back into VSB the fill setting is still there, so it is getting saved. Run time doesn't match design time.
2) In VSB, some of the design elements don't seem to change color to reflect changes I've made. For example, in the combo box I'm working on, all the elements in the combo box reflect the settings correctly but nothing I do with the scroll bars in the dropdown list seems to effect the design and preview images. If I click the ScrollBarButton->FillPrimitive in the tree and change the BackColor in either the Expert Mode properties or by picking a color in the Initial State tab, the design and preview images do not reflect these changes. The control also doesn't reflect these changes in the app at runtime. Is there something that locks out these changes or overrides what I am doing?
My method of using the theme was to drop a radThemeManager on the form, open the Telerik theme, make my changes and then saved it as a new theme under a different name. I then used the theme manager option "load theme from file", and finally picked the theme name on the control's menu which is using it. It gets the combo box part of the custom theme correct, but ignores anything I do to the drop down portion of the combo box.
I'm running Visual Studio 2005 on XP.
1) If I put a fill gradient on the RadComboBoxItem->FillPrimitive, it shows up fine in the design and preview images in VSB but it's just a plain white background when the combo drop-down appears in the application. When I go back into VSB the fill setting is still there, so it is getting saved. Run time doesn't match design time.
2) In VSB, some of the design elements don't seem to change color to reflect changes I've made. For example, in the combo box I'm working on, all the elements in the combo box reflect the settings correctly but nothing I do with the scroll bars in the dropdown list seems to effect the design and preview images. If I click the ScrollBarButton->FillPrimitive in the tree and change the BackColor in either the Expert Mode properties or by picking a color in the Initial State tab, the design and preview images do not reflect these changes. The control also doesn't reflect these changes in the app at runtime. Is there something that locks out these changes or overrides what I am doing?
My method of using the theme was to drop a radThemeManager on the form, open the Telerik theme, make my changes and then saved it as a new theme under a different name. I then used the theme manager option "load theme from file", and finally picked the theme name on the control's menu which is using it. It gets the combo box part of the custom theme correct, but ignores anything I do to the drop down portion of the combo box.
I'm running Visual Studio 2005 on XP.