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[Solved] Place to store data in a treeview.

Is the only place to store data in a tree view in the tag field? I need to know info about a node when a person clicks on it. I guess I could make the tag an array of objects and then process them accordingly.

TIA - Jeff.

Treeview

answered on 07 Jan 2011

2 answers

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Access filter (rad)textbox control

Hi there,
I was wondering (after searching for quiet some time) if it's possible to access directly to the filtering controls.
This in the purpose to add some AutoCompleteCustomSource (nicer than changing all the column type and everything ...)

Thx in advance

GridView

answered on 07 Jan 2011

3 answers

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RichText/Html Editor for Winforms

Hi,

Could you tell me what the plans are for a decent html editor for Winforms as it really is a massive issue for us. We are building a large backoffice application that also runs our website and email tempaltes, therefore there is a strong need for a quality HTML editor. We are using the hack to get the ASP.NET editor working for some things at the moment but our developers are telling us that it is difficult to use for the situations we require because it is not a really winforms control - just really a browser window within a winform, therefore you are loosing lots of control.

This leaves us in a bit of a problem as we really would like to stick with telerik controls, but because there is no decent telerik control for this thing we are having to look at third part options which are just poor or extreamly expensive. I'm sure there are load of people in the same position and I'm sure Telerik are missing a good revenue stream by not offering it.

If your looking to develop it, and wish for some feature requests, then essentially we would like the functionality of the RAD editor in Winforms, but if you are looking for specific features that are important to us:

Feature requests:

These are in addition to all the general html formatting basics as there are to many of those to list and they are pretty obvious:

Specify content type (h1, h2, paragraph, preformat, etc)
Lists, including selection of the bullet icon
Table control
Insert custom characters
Insert predefined content
Intelligent handling of content pasted from Word (paste as plain text etc)
Automatic conversion of pasted content character encoding
Style the content in the WYSIWYG section based upon a predefined external stylesheet
Spell Check
CSS Styles (very important!!)
Clear all formatting
Control over visible editing icons
Full Screen Toggle
Insert code snippet
Good colour pallate
Track changes
Undo / Redo
XHTML Vaildator

Sometimes we prefer plain HTML (as opposed to xHTML) as the output. It would be great if the editor was easily configured for a specific content type: HTML, xHTML, Textile, etc. The markup view would need to be able to show and allow editing of this type of markup.

Options to generate other filetypes (eg: Word, RTF, PDF, HTML) for export would also be great.

The option of a slim control bar (rather than the wide 'Ribbon' style) to conserve screen space is important.

Also we are currently trying to use the editor with a variable parsing engine - This requires us to place special charators to denote the variables in the html - such as %%Variable%% - it would be very good if we had the option to not re-write html code when these tags are in place at the moment we are having a few issues where editors try and get clever and do re-writing because these are invalid chars in certain places in the code.

I really hope a decent winforms editor is an upcoming product, so we don't have to go third party - its going to cost us almost as much as the whole telerik sweet just to get a decent third party winforms editor, and I really would like to keep everything inline with your fantastic product!

General Discussions

answered on 06 Jan 2011

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RadControl RTL questiones

Hi, I am new to the "RadDock" control and trying to test it before we put it in our App.
there is some thing that I Test and I dont know if they could be done.

1.We miss a feature in the RedDock control to have a different text between the tab and the "ToolWindow" caption

2.The RedDock not full support RTL, because the X(close) keep staying in the right side even though I marked all as RTL(but many I didn't do it right)

3.I miss a feature to control the location of the Caption alignment in the "Tool Window"(I want it to be to the right because my App is RTL).

4.The Quick navigator also don’t change by RTL.

5.Is the Quick navigator a Control by itself by any chance? Because I cant find it and would like to use it.

Dock

answered on 06 Jan 2011

3 answers

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Windows Explorer XP Style PageView

Hello,

I am trying to create a pageview / expandable content area with a titlebar and show/hide arrows that is similar to how windows explorer in windows xp does it on the left side navigation of the window. Here is an example image: http://sites.google.com/site/randompicsandimages/_/rsrc/1244344677082/Home/PANELBAR.png

I found a thread here http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/winforms/panelbar/explorer-style-with-panel-bar.aspx where someone asked the same question, and a solution was provided using PanelBar, which is now obsolete.

My question is, is there a way i can use PageView to achieve a similar effect?

Any help / suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

PageView

answered on 06 Jan 2011

11 answers

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[Solved] buttons just change in colour

Hi!

Can anyone help me with this? Urgent please.
I'm using radButtons. The GradientStyle is Linear. But when I switch forms, all (as in all) the radButtons in all forms change to GradientStyle Solid. I noticed this when we upgraded to Q3 2010.

Thanks,

Ian

Buttons, RadioButton, CheckBox, etc

answered on 06 Jan 2011

10 answers

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[Solved] Appointment.isAllDay protected?

I don't get it. I want to read/write appointment data from a database, and get/set IsAllDay. Sure, I can check that the start is 00:00:00 and that the end is 23:59:59 on the same date, but what kind of kludge is that?

What reason is there to protect this property?

Scheduler and Reminder

answered on 06 Jan 2011

1 answer

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BackColor change for Combobox, DateTimePicker, MaskedEditBox

What I'm trying to do is depend on my search method I want to highlight some fields in my winform to make them required.
Some fields are RadComboBoxes, some of them are DateTimePickers, some MaskedEditBoxes.

On Click event of my search method I'm trying to set a BackColor for fields that are required to yellow.

radComboBox_1.BackColor = Color.Yellow;

EdMsk_A3.BackColor = Color.Yellow;

As soon as user fills out the required field it suppose to change color back to initial White background.

The problem is that the following code for the background change does not work.. BackColor of the combobox never changed..
Thanks,
Victoria.

ComboBox and ListBox (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 05 Jan 2011

4 answers

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RadDropdownlist should look like combobox

I need a control that is like the normal windows combobox, except
that for each item in the list the color for the background an forecolor differs, e.g.
Each Item has the same size (width, height)

ITEM 0 backcolour=red, forecolor=white
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ITEM 1 backcolor=black forecolor=white
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ITEM 2 backcolor=blue, forecolour=white
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ITEM 3 backcolor=green, forecolour=black

Thank you very much for the help.

DropDownList

answered on 05 Jan 2011

4 answers

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Wrap text in radStatusBarPanelElement

I cannot get the text to wrap in radStatusBarPanelElement placed inside a radstatustrip.
I am using Q1 2008 SP1.
Can someone please tell me how I can do this? There is nothing in docs also about wrapping text in this element.

Thanks
Sunil

General Discussions

answered on 05 Jan 2011