What property controls the rendering of the thicker timelines in the scheduler?

[Johan]

Hi,
I am playing around with the MinutesPerRow and TimeLabelRowSpan properties. The default settings are 30 and 2 resp.

In day and weekview, the lines separating the rows are rendered thicker every 2 rows.

If I set TimeLabelRowSpan to 3, this looks very weird/confusing, since the lines separating the time labels do not connect to the thicker rendered row separating lines.

Can I control the events/count in which the thicker row separator lines in the scheduler are rendered?

Or could this be a bug? I would expect the label separating lines to connect to the thicker rendered row separating lines so if it is hardcoded that every 2 row separating lines a line is rendered thicker this cannot be accomplished.
A solution would be to render every TimeLabelRowSpan-nd row separating line thicker.

regards,
Johan


Can I change the subject of a topic?
Better would be:

"What property controls the rendering logic of the thicker row separating lines in dayview/weekview?"

[Peter]

Hello Ghandi,

This looks like an old bug, which we have already fixed. If you use the current version - 2010.3 1215, but you still get this problem, can you send us a sample code with which we can test locally? Ideally, you can open a support ticket and attach a simple working demo of the problem.

Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Johan]

Hi Peter,

I installed the latest trial: 2010.3.1215.40

Please explain to me where it is not clear:

1. In the scheduler, in the dayview, the rows are separated by lines. Every two lines a line is rendered a little thicker (see horizontal red ovals in attachement).

2. In the scheduler, in the dayview, the groups are separated by lines.

3. If TimeLabelRowSpan = 3, in the scheduler, in the dayview, every 3 rows are grouped.

4. If TimeLabelRowSpan = 3, in the scheduler, in the dayview, the row separator lines are still rendered a little thicker every 2 lines.

5. If TimeLabelRowSpan = 3, in the scheduler, in the dayview, the thicker row separator lines do not align with the group separator lines which looks ackward (see vertical red oval in attachement).

Imho there are a number of "solutions".

1. Add the possibility to disable the rendering of the thicker lines (take a look at the tick frequency and zoom demo of the wpf scheduler. There all row separating lines are rendered grey, not thick/black).

2. Do not always render the thicker line every 2 lines, but every TimeLabelRowSpan lines.

So if TimeLabelRowSpan = 3, every 3 lines, so that the thicker line connects to the group separator line.

3. If TimeLabelRowSpan is devisable by 2, render a thicker line every two lines, if it is devisable by 3 every 3 lines, by 5 every 5 lines etc. for every prime.

regards,

Johan

ps. Can I open a suppor ticket as a trail user? I did not find how. I cannot attach a project here (although I think it is not needed. Just open any project with a scheduler, set TimeLabelRowSpan = 3 and you can verify this.

[Peter]

Hi Johan,

I see what you mean. Thank you for your detailed explanation. I agree with what you are suggesting, so I will log it in our system for future implementation.

In the meantime, you can workaround the problem with the following css fix (you will need to adjust the border-bottom-color depending on your skin).

.rsContentTable .rsAlt td
  {
      border-style: dotted !important;
      border-bottom-color: #e8eaec !important;
   }

Note that every other row renders with rsAlt class which is causing the double line.


All the best,
Peter
the Telerik team