Themes

[Doug Beard]

If I set a global theme (ASP.NET 2.0), I was under the impression the Prometheus controls would pick up on that theme name and apply it without being registered directly to the control.

This doesn't appear to be true in my application.

However, if I set the control.skin property equal to same name as the ASP.NET 2.0 Theme, it works as expected.

What am I missing?

[Paul]

Hi Doug,

Please refer to the control's documentation under section RadControls 'Prometheus' Fundamentals --> Controlling Visual Appearance --> Using skins in ASP.NET themes for details on the matter.

Regards,
Paul
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[James]

I have an issue with using a default asp.net theme and getting the properties applied to telerik controls properly.
Here's the content of my app_themes\Default\skinfile.skin file:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %>

<telerik:RadWindow runat="server" Skin="Vista"/>

<telerik:RadWindowManager runat="server" Skin="Vista">

According to this, it should apply Vista as the skin for RadWin's, right?
It doesn't seem to apply though.

[James]

figured it out
this is the name of the skin: App_Themes\Default\skinfile.skin

then I had to add to web.config:
<system.web>
  <pages theme="Default">

Then it worked! No need to set SkinID in the .skin file, or skin/skinID on the individual pages.