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answered on 11 Sep 2009, 03:01 PM

Hello Roland,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Currently our themes can be applied to the following standard controls:
Button, TextBox, LIstBox, CheckBox, RadioButton

With the forthcoming Q3 2009 we plan to launch our own Button, DropDownButton, RadioButton and ToggleButton controls that will also be styled with all the available themes for RadControls for Silverlight/WPF.

In a week from now we will launch Beta 1 release including the button controls mentioned above. However, at that beta stage they will support only the default Office_Black theme.

Greetings,
Nick
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answered on 22 Dec 2009, 02:42 AM

You say: "Currently our themes can be applied to the following standard controls:
Button, TextBox, LIstBox, CheckBox, RadioButton"

But how i can apply yours WPF themes to the standart WPF controls? Example for ListBox?

Короче, а если я буду делать свои контролы, как я могу Ваши Theme применить на свой (СustomControl) контрол?

Помоги пожалуйста. Это очень важно, потому что моя компания хочет приобрести у Вас много чего из Ваших наработок.

С уважением,
Сергей,
www.calabonga.com

answered on 23 Dec 2009, 02:22 PM

wpf-controls.zip

Hello Sergei Calabonga,

Please find attached an example. If you have further more questions please do not hesitate to ask us.

I hope this will help you.

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Dimitrina
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answered on 05 Jan 2010, 02:45 AM

Well, I understand.
So if I want to change styles programmatically, I have to create files with other type of styles like that:

    
             <!-- this is for global style for controls --> 
        
                <Style TargetType="TextBox" 
        
                       BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=TextBox}}" /> 
        
                <Style TargetType="ListBox" 
        
                       BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=ListBox}}"/>  
        
                <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem" 
        
                       BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=ListBoxItem}}" /> 
        
                <Style TargetType="Button" 
        
                       BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=Button}}" /> 
        
                <Style TargetType="RadioButton" 
        
                       BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=RadioButton}}" /> 
        
                <Style TargetType="CheckBox" 
        
                       BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=CheckBox}}" />

And than automatically load them at application startup.

Thanks. Your help realy help me.

answered on 23 Sep 2010, 07:05 AM

Hello Simon,

If you set in the app.xaml the styles that Sergei Calabonga posted all forms in your application should display the Button, TextBox, LIstBox, CheckBox, RadioButton in Office_Blue theme. If they do not there is a chance that other implicit styles interfere. If you set local style on a control the implicit style will not work. You will have to base them on Office_Blue too.

All the best,
Panayot
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answered on 24 Sep 2010, 06:45 AM

samplethemeapp.zip

Hi Simon,

Check the attached project. It has a ne CustomRadWindowControl defined. It works like custom UserControl but it is based on RadWindow. You can create one easy if you have our controls installed - then the 'add new item' section will have an 'add telerik scenario' option (pretty purple button) where you can select to create new RadWindow... it will generate all the classes names and xaml for you.

In the app.xaml I have added the styles mentioned below. They set implicit styles for the MS controls based on the styles for our Office_Blue so the Button, TextBox and ListBox in the custom rad window will pick them.

The MainWindow has a button that will create a new instance of the CustomRadWindowControl and open it.

Best wishes,
Panayot
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answered on 31 May 2011, 04:15 PM

This example is weak. The example shows how to HARD CODE a specific style for specific WPF control types. This means a new code drop just to change the theme or if we missed enumerating a WPF control type. Really? Is that the best suggestion we can get from telerik? Doesn't that defeat the idea of a Theme? Say, for example, that the company has three approved color schemes and the user can switch color schemes. How can we do that without a code release? Please show me that. And what if the user decides they want their Windows Theme to show through their WPF/telerik application. I need to tell them "Yes it can". But how?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Joe

 <Application.Resources>
 <!-- this is for global style for controls -->
 <Style TargetType="TextBox" BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=TextBox}}" />
 <Style TargetType="ListBox" BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=ListBox}}"/>
 <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem" BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=ListBoxItem}}" />
 <Style TargetType="Button" BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=Button}}" />
 <Style TargetType="RadioButton" BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=RadioButton}}" />
 <Style TargetType="CheckBox" BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Office_BlueTheme, ElementType=CheckBox}}" />
 </Application.Resources>

answered on 07 Jun 2011, 09:30 AM

Hello Simon,

I deeply apologize for the late reply.

Let me elaborate a bit further on our theming mechanism and why we chose to implement it the way it is. I believe this will shed some more light on the concerns you have.

We have implemented our own theming mechanism that allows our users to easily apply our themes to their applications. The mechanism does not work with the default Microsoft theming though. So far we have not found a demand for the Microsoft themes other than PresentationFramework.Aero - it matches our Vista theme. It seems the Luna, Royale and Classic are not widely used, hence we have not put them with a high priority in the plan.

We share codebase between our Silverlight and WPF bundles and this causes some limitations. As a result the themes cannot be applied to Microsoft controls unless set implicitly or through StyleManager.Theme. Therefore, the hard-coded theme for CheckBox, RadioButton, ScrollBar etc. is required.

We would recommend you to chose a Telerik Theme and use it in your application. Hard-coding the theme will stop your application from applying changes done in the OS colors and theme to your application UI. Again, this is not a commonly requested feature and we do not have it in the backlog for the time being. However, we will definitely look into the interest this will arouse and consider it for the next releases.

I hope this information explains our decisions and the course of action we took.

Greetings,
Nick
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