Questions on UI for WinForms Forum

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radMenu on MDI

I've created a new project and am trying to do the following:

1. created a ShapedForm as MDI Parent
2. put a radPanel at the top of the ShapedForm
3. put a radMenu on the radPanel
4. set all of the above to Windows7 theme
5. in page load of the MDI (ShapedForm), i want to display a login form (Login) in the center of the MDI (Shaped form) via code below:

Dim fLogin As Form

fLogin = New Login

fLogin.MdiParent = Me

fLogin.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent

fLogin.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal

fLogin.Show()

PROBLEMS:
1. the radmenu has no theme
2. in the radmenu, i have a radmenuHeaderItem - it is aligned on the top no matter what i try - so does not line up with the menu items (not aligned middled like the menu items).
3. the login page appears in the upper top left corner not centered.

i've looked for examples but none of what i'm trying to accomplish.
please help. i've been on asp.net for the past 5 years so it's frustrating.
thanks!

Menu

answered on 31 Jan 2011

3 answers

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Exporting a theme as a package after color blending

Hello,

I am using the windows 7 theme. I want my application color to be red so I use color blending. I am not totally satisfied with the result, so I would like to edit the generated red theme in the VSB as it is mentioned in this blog post :

http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/posts/08-10-31/chameleon_skinning_coming_up_to_winforms_in_q3_2008.aspx
"And finally if the resulting skin still needs some touches, you can export the modified theme data to xml files, and tweak them using the Visual Style Builder app, as much as you wish. "

To export the theme I used the code attached in this thread, that uses XmlStyleBuilderRegistration objects.
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/winforms/themes-and-visual-style-builder/theme-and-addcolorblend-not-working.aspx

This code generated 56 Xml files. I start the VSB and hit "Open directory" to load all xml file but VSB says that these files are old and no more supported.

How can I export a color blended theme to edit it in the new VSB?

Thank You
Regards
Thibaut

Themes and Visual Style Builder

answered on 31 Jan 2011

13 answers

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Adding Custom Controls to Carousel for WinForms

Hi,
how can we add custom controls other than the ones provided with the RAD Suite?
thanks.

Carousel

answered on 31 Jan 2011

8 answers

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Hide Column from Header pop-up menu event

Hello,

I use "Hide Column" from GridView->Header->Pop-up menu.
Is there some event to get information about column which was hidden?

Thanks

GridView

answered on 31 Jan 2011

19 answers

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User Interface

I really liked Kaspersky's User Interface.

Is it possible to create some UI like that, using Telerik controls for WinForms ?

Thanks

General Discussions

answered on 29 Jan 2011

6 answers

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Button click adds new documentwindow

I want to create a document window tab on the dock when I click a button. how do I go about this?
Thanks!!
-Eric Pacheco

Dock

answered on 29 Jan 2011

4 answers

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How to get GridDataCellElement from grid

I have created custom cells in rad grid like this

private void radGrid_CellFormatting( object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e )
{
           if( e.CellElement.ColumnInfo.Name == "Rate")
            {
                CurrencyRate currencyRate = e.CellElement.RowInfo.DataBoundItem as CurrencyRate;
                RadSpinElement spin = new RadSpinElement( );
                spin.MinValue = 0;
                spin.MaxValue = decimal.MaxValue;
                spin.DecimalPlaces = 2;
                spin.TextAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
                spin.Value = currencyRate.Rate;
                e.CellElement.Children.Add( spin );
            }
}

now, how can I get RadSpinElement object from here

private void radGrid_CommandCellClick( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
                 GridCommandCellElement cell = sender as GridCommandCellElement;
                if( cell.ColumnInfo.Name == "Update" )
                {
                        //I need "Rate" RadSpinElement object here
                 }
}

without creating custom RadSpinGridCellElement.

Thanks.

GridView

answered on 29 Jan 2011

3 answers

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CommandBar focus

Hello,

We started having a weird problem with one of our command bars. It would become inactive somehow when you interact with a rad grid on the same win form, and when you mouse over it the buttons won't change their background as usual, and if you try to click one, it won't do anything. In order to make it work you have to click once anywhere on the bar and then it behaves properly again. I tried explicitly calling Focus() on the bar and the strip element in the code behind but did not help. Any ideas?

Thanks!

CommandBar

answered on 28 Jan 2011

2 answers

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Problem in Selected Row

Hi,

We have a Lookup window having a text box at top and Grid with Data. When user type in text box, we find the data in grid and select that Row. Grid in NOT having focus at that time means we want selected row to be shown while user is writing on text box. In previous version Q2 2010, it was working properly. from Q3 2010, until grid control don't have focus, it does not show Selected row....

Kindly advise any solution for this.

Thanks
devoas

GridView

answered on 28 Jan 2011

1 answer

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Unable to "completely" remove gradient from RadGridView's GridTableHeaderRowElement

Hi.

I am using the Visual Style Builder to create the theme for RadGridView.

I am trying to change the RowFill for GridTableHeaderRowElement with a new Gradient type repository item. I don't want the background to be gradient colored and thus I chose the GradientStyle = Solid. This does paint the background with the color I chose but the table header columns still have gradient color (different from what I selected) left in them.

I have attached the snapshot of the VSB screen where I did the above.

As you can see, there is still a tint of gray at the bottom of the header columns that I am not able to remove.

Can someone help?

Thanks.

Themes and Visual Style Builder

answered on 28 Jan 2011