What's the correct way to customize a style when using Theme Manager/XAML binaries

[Joe]

My app uses the XAML binaries and the theme manager to set the application wide theme to Windows8Touch.  I also set custom palette colors at the same time. 

But whenever I want to customize a Telerik style, it seems I have to copy all of the relevant Theme XAML out of the Telerik Theme folder, replicate it in my app, and then base my styles off of that.  That's the only way that seems to work.

Because whenever  I try to base my custom style off just the type default, like this:

    <Style TargetType="{x:Type tk:RadPathButton}" BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type tk:RadPathButton}}">

I get weird results.  Colors don't match my the ones I set at application start times and it looks like the XAML comes from a different theme sometimes.

Is the rule that I must copy Telerik XAML in this situation or am I doing something else wrong?

[Psyduck]

Hello.

 

This is a document about changing telerik xaml style. You may find it helpful.

https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/wpf/styling-and-appearance/stylemanager/common-styling-apperance-setting-theme-wpf#setting-instance-specific-built-in-theme-in-xaml

For default controls, you need to manually style the theme.

<Window.Resources> 
    <telerik:Expression_DarkTheme x:Key="Theme" /> 
    <Style TargetType="Button"> 
        <Setter Property="telerik:StyleManager.Theme" Value="{StaticResource Theme}"/> 
    </Style> 
</Window.Resources>