Questions on UI for WinForms Forum

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Merge Cells

Hey Telerik team and users!

Its been a while since someone asked for some help related to cells and merging them.
So here I am.
What I'm trying to do is to merge specific cells, I need rowspan and colspan.

I'd love something like: DataGrid.Rows[0].Cells[2].Colspan(2);
Which merges Cells 3,4 and 5 in the first row (zero-based index for the cells) . Looking for something similar to use rowspan ;)

Is that possible that way or the other? I'm quite desperate by now. So there's HtmlView but I'm not quite sure if this does the trick for me. And it seemed to me a bit complicated, to be honest.

I'd be glad for some help and suggestions!
best regards!

GridView

answered on 23 Sep 2009

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Disable Editing in radcombobox

I have a combobox defined like this:

    
            cmbOrigin.Items.Clear();  
        
            cmbOrigin.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend;  
        
            cmbOrigin.NullText = Transat.PDP.Client.Properties.Resources.ControlDataOriginNullText;  
        
            foreach (MyItem i in ListOfMyItems)  
        
            {  
        
                cmbOrigin.Items.Add(new RadComboBoxItem(string.Format("{0} - {1}", i.Code, i.Nom), i));  
        
            }

I want to have the AutoCompleteMode set to SuggestAppend so that the rest of the text get showed and the list is showed too.
What i dont want is the user to be able to type 2 letters and then hit backspace and go out of the combobox leaving me with an inconsistant value.

how can i force the user to pick a valid entry in the combobox?

thanks
mateo

ComboBox and ListBox (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 23 Sep 2009

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Alignment of Label Text

Hello,

This should be an easy one. I'm looking to make the X-Axis labels on my grid look identical to the one in your example here:

http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/buildingdatabinddatabase.html

I have successfully gotten the text rotated, colored, formatted, etc, but the one thing that doesn't work is the alignment. In your example, the text is right-justified, making it hug right up against the bottom of the grid, which is nice! In my case, even when I set

radChart.PlotArea.XAxis.Appearance.LabelAppearance.Position.AlignedPosition = Telerik.Charting.Styles.AlignedPositions.Right;

It still doesn't do that, but stays center justified, so that longer strings run into the chart, and smaller strings are sitting many pixels below the bottom. How do I get my text to be aligned to the right?

Thanks!

Jeremy

Chart (obsolete as of Q1 2013)

answered on 23 Sep 2009

7 answers

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[Solved] MDI Child Issue & WindowState

I have seen some similar threads, but this is not the same issue (I don't believe it is).

I have 2 RadForms, one is a MDI parent and the other is a MDI child. As mentioned, these both inherit from a RadForm.
Everything (nearly everything) was working correctly until I decided that I wanted the child to be maximised when opened inside the MDI parent. I used this bit of code:

    
                Private Sub WorkCentreLogsToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles WorkCentreLogsToolStripMenuItem.Click 
        
                    frmWorkCentreLog.MdiParent = Me 
        
                    frmWorkCentreLog.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized 
        
                    frmWorkCentreLog.Show() 
        
                End Sub

I should point out that inside my MDI parent, I use the windows ToolStrip and MenuStrip. The reason for this is that I prefer thier interface and how easily they are to add.
I removed both of these to see if it was them that were causing the issue I was having.

Now, the issue is this: When the child window is maximised, the parent form does not have any way of minimising or changing the window state of the child form. Nor does it display the title of the child window in the parent window's title bar (This is the same issue as others have had, but their solution was to use RadForm rather than ShapedForm. I have not used the ShapedForm at all).

If someone could help me identify the cause and solution to this, I would be greatful.

Form

answered on 23 Sep 2009

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Chart not honoring Dock Fill or Anchoring

I have a UI that is fully resizable. I just noticed that the charts don't automatically resize with the container parent. Also, when I set dock fill or anchor to all sides and resize the container, the chart says the same. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Brian

Chart (obsolete as of Q1 2013)

answered on 23 Sep 2009

4 answers

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Extra space to the right of plot area even though legend is closed

Even though I have the legend closed, there is still extra space to the right of the plot area in charts. Could you please tell me how I can make the plot area go all the way to the right edge?

Thanks,

Brian

Chart (obsolete as of Q1 2013)

answered on 23 Sep 2009

2 answers

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[Solved] Schedular DataTypes

Dear friends,

Since yesterday that i am trying to bind my database with the radSchedular with no success. I have a very simple table with the fields 'Title','Description','StartDate','EndData'. I took a look at the examples but i cannot find the SchedularDataSet() type.

I would like to ask you for some help on how can i make a reference so that i can use the SchedularDataSet() type, and, if possible, can you give-me a very simple example?

Thanks in advance.

My table is named 'tasks':

idtask uniqueidentifier;

description nvarchar(50);

smallinfo nvarchar(15);

startdate datetime;

enddate datetime;

Form_Load is:

                    tarefasTableAdapter1.Fill(bdcrmDataSet.tarefas);
            AppointmentMappingInfo appointmentMappingInfo = new AppointmentMappingInfo();
            appointmentMappingInfo.Start = "startdate";
            appointmentMappingInfo.End = "enddate";
            appointmentMappingInfo.Summary = "smallinfo";
            appointmentMappingInfo.Description = "description";
            schedulerBindingDataSource1.EventProvider.Mapping = appointmentMappingInfo;
            radScheduler1.DataSource = schedulerBindingDataSource1;        

The code give-me no erros, however, the schedular is empty with no info loaded. I checkd the dataset and it has data inside.

Am i missing anything?

Thank you.

Scheduler and Reminder

answered on 22 Sep 2009

9 answers

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winforms examples on 64 bit vista

Hello. I'm brand new to Telerik controls so I hope I can keep stupid questions to a minimum.

I just installed newly purchased Telerik Controls Premium and am trying to run the example application on my Windows Vista Business 64 bit development laptop. I am receiveing the message "The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine." for examples that use the database.

I found this topic in the KB, but it is specific to the ASP controls.

Is there a solution for the Winforms examples?

Thanks for your help.

Joe

General Discussions

answered on 22 Sep 2009

4 answers

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Grouping Issues

I have a RadGridView with an unbound Select column (checkbox). If I group by any field, I can select a checkbox to select the row and everything appears to work fine. If I then select another checkbox, all grouping collapses, and that record is not selected. I can then expand the grouping and select the record. This process then repeats for each record I select. I am using the latest version of the WinForms controls.

Thanks in advance,
Tony

GridView

answered on 21 Sep 2009

1 answer

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Zooming Font and Size for Windows Forms Controls

Hi,

I wish to be able to simulate the standard browser Zoom feature in a Windows Forms application. I have a certain set of Telerik controls (RadLabel, RadTextBox etc) which I'd like to ;
1) Reset the font size (to allow the text to grow bigger)
2) Reset the control.Size (to allow for the larger font size).

All the controls I want to do this for are within some kind of TableLayout container, so I think the repositioning should occur automatically using a SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout

Typically to do this I would iterate through the hierarchy of controls, resizing and re-fonting as I go. However I wondered if there was a "better" way to do this, perhaps using Themes or Styles within Telerik which would give a better solution.

Phillip

General Discussions

answered on 21 Sep 2009