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Tabbed Documents with Office2007Black Theme

Hi there,

I'm not sure if this is a dock issue, or a theming issue, but when using the Office2007Black theme - the un-selected document tabs are almost invisible (black on dark grey)

Is there a way to amend this (I'm not that experienced with themes)

Screen shot attached...

Dock

answered on 31 Mar 2010

1 answer

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show fewer buttons - icon

radpanelbar shows a context menu with "show few buttons". Pick this, and it hides panels, and places buttons for the hidden panel down at the bottom of the panel bar. The buttons have the default telerik logo. I can't find how to change this to my own icons, and can't find any documentation regarding this feature at all. Any ideas?

Thx!

Panelbar (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 31 Mar 2010

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ToolStripItems - can it be set to auto-wrap to another row?

I have a toolstrip at top of my window with a number of different toolstrip items. Currently, the toolbar is set to one row. Depending upon the users application security, I hide/show the applicable toolstripitems.

Since I have a large monitor and the application is set to show full screen, all my visible toolbar items fit on the one row. But since my users have smaller monitors (or resize the window), the toolstripitems get visibly cutoff (overflowbutton = false).

Is there a way that I can prevent these toolbaritem from being cutoff but instead wrap to a new row?

Toolstrip (obsolete as of Q3 2010)

answered on 31 Mar 2010

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radtextbox, detecting paste

Hi.

How can I detect the paste drop down event? I need to message the user when the pasting text does not fit the filtering mask. I tried with 0x0302 in WndProc but without success.

- jorge

TextBox

answered on 31 Mar 2010

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lookupcolumn that can act as plain text column

Hi,
I have a lookup column on the grid which is bound by a linq datasource. The dropdownstyle is set to dropdown so that I can edit the field. I can now enter my own values that may or may not be in the dropdown datasource, but when the column looses focus, the old value shows up.
What I want is the lookupcolumn to have some predifined items that are used only as a guidence and then the user can choose one of the items or enter a new one...

Thanks
Deepak

GridView

answered on 31 Mar 2010

6 answers

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Filtering on booleans / checkboxes not intuitive

2008Q2

The grid displays boolean column as check box, the filter on the column in on
(default), the filter checkbox is not checked - the grid displays all rows.

If the user checks the checkbox, the grid filters all rows that are also checked.
Now if the user clears the checkbox, the grid filters all rows that are
not checked. So far, so good.

The problem is, it's not intuitive for the user, since he has no visual clue,
that filtering is still active. (The UI looks the same as before the initial checking,
but the result is not the same.) Would be nice if the filter symbol would indicate
active filters, or how about a 3 state checkbox?

Erwin

GridView

answered on 29 Mar 2010

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Group property null for GridColumnGroupCellElement

I'm trying to add some a custom menu item when the user clicks on a GridColumnGroupCellElement to hide all columns below this group. However, the Group property of the GridColumnGroupCellElement is always null and the ColumnIndex is -1. Is there any way to determine the GridViewColumn or GroupViewColumnGroup that this element belongs to?

This is the code i'm currently using

    
            private void Grid_ContextMenuOpening(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.ContextMenuOpeningEventArgs e)  
        
            {  
        
                if (e.ContextMenuProvider.GetType() == typeof(GridColumnGroupCellElement))  
        
                {  
        
                    GridColumnGroupCellElement element = (GridColumnGroupCellElement)e.ContextMenuProvider;  
        
                    GridViewColumnGroup group = element.Group; // this is always null  
        
                    RadMenuItem customItem = new RadMenuItem("Hide Group", "HideGroup");  
        
                    customItem.Tag = group;  
        
                    customItem.Click += new EventHandler(Grid_ContextMenu_HideGroup_Click);  
        
                    e.ContextMenu.Items.Add(customItem);  
        
                }  
        
            }

Thank you,
Tim

GridView

answered on 29 Mar 2010

2 answers

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Show Help Button

Hi!

I use rdaRibbonBar in my application and I would like to incorporate the Help Button at the right end of bar. I set the ShowHelpButton property to true. How I can catch when the user click on the button? For now it's only an ? image.

Thanks

RibbonBar

answered on 29 Mar 2010

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RadPanelBar remembering position?

Currently I have two overlapped Panel Bars, each with their own lists. By clicking on one it hides the original and makes the other one visible. On the bottom of the other panel bar is a ToggleButtonElement that hides the panel bar and returns to the other view. My question is how can i focus on the original element clicked so the user doesn't need to scroll all the way down to where he or she was before it made the switch? Because of the amount of elements in these panel bars and the targeted platform I had to do it this way.

Here is a visual description of what I am doing:

Panel Bar 1
---------------
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3

By clicking on Group 2, Panel bar 1 becomes hidden and Panel Bar 2 is visible.

Panel Bar 2
---------------
Element 1
Element 2
Back to Groups Element

By clicking on "Back to Groups", Panel Bar 1 is now visible again.

Thanks.

Panelbar (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 29 Mar 2010

2 answers

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Control doesn't appear in Form

Good Afternoon,

When I try to build a windows forms application and try to drag a RadGridView control onto the form it doesn't appear on the form itself but on the grey bar at the bottom of the designer view. I have attached a screenshot to illustrate what I mean.

When I to do anything with the grid in unbound mode or by data binding it (I've tried with lists and data tables) and then run the application, the form simply does not show the grid.

I'm using the dlls only and have imported them as references to the project, imported them to the toolbar and added the following assemblies using the gacutil tool:
TelerikCommon, Telerik.WinControls, Telerik.WinControls.GridView, Telerik.WinControls.UI

The version of the assemblies is 2010.1.10.308.

I have, so far, been able to successfully add other Telerik winforms controls to forms and use them.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

GridView

answered on 29 Mar 2010