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SCSF view is taking time to load(Optimise loading of views in SCSF)

Hi,

I have developed a smart client desktop application using SCSF.

It has an MDI and MDI child forms opens over it(It is similar to windows menu based application using MDI) .

The problem is that the MDI child forms (i.e. the views) take a few seconds to open and load.

Is there any way of minimising the time it takes.

The forms are having simple telerik text boxes and telerik labels and telerik grids(which has two columns and is not populated during load)

I call a webservice at form load and have tried to comment the service call; Even then it takes the same time so I have ruled out the possibility of service delay.

Nothing else is done at the form load except the form is rendered

Is it because I am using telerik that the form is taking time to render the telerik controls or because of SCSF CAB.

But a simple windows forms in the same project gets loaded faster than the telerik one.

May be SCSF might be tuned up to load the views faster or there is some way to make the CAB work faster which I am unaware of.

Thanks in advance.

General Discussions

answered on 28 Jul 2009

6 answers

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Global Themes

I am new to the Telerik WinForms controls (so be gentle if this is dumb question).

I have looked through the doc, watched videos and searched the forums, but I can not figure out how to set a theme that applies to an entire application or even all controls on a form. It seems like you have to set the theme on every control on every form. What am I missing?

- Jim

Themes and Visual Style Builder

answered on 27 Jul 2009

5 answers

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image button element animate help!!!

Hi!!!
First of all i would like to thank you guys for this excellent looking product.
i have just started making some test apps and i am in a bit of a problem.
Problem...
I have made a elliptical carousel and added some rad image button element. i have been trying to animate these buttons when ever a mouse enters the button element or leaves and if a person double clicks it. The animation includes changing picture to another (to a bigger resolution one), moving the image etc. But strangely i haven't been able too. i know its something very easy, but i couldn't find how to..
Can u please help me quickly with this i would be really thankful.

Buttons, RadioButton, CheckBox, etc

answered on 27 Jul 2009

1 answer

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RadRadioButton and TextWrap property

Does RadRadioButton support text wrapping?

See this picture : if I set or no TextWrap property - text is always in one line.

By the way, if I set proprety AutoSize to True, then False again - text is wrapped, but in designer, not during execution. And after closing/starting Visual Stiudio - text is again in one line.

PS: Same question about RadCheckBox control.

Buttons, RadioButton, CheckBox, etc

answered on 27 Jul 2009

3 answers

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RadComboBox FormatString Not Working?

I'm trying to create a control with formatted entry and a drop-down suggestions list, specifically an am / pm time field with seconds with a list of suggested but not mandatory times. I'm trying to use a RadComboBox and setting its FormatString Property to do this. I couldn't find any docs on this Property so I tried using the Mask characters from the RadMaskedEditBox docs. I've tried "HH:mm:ss tt" and simply "##:##:## LL". In neither case did it restrict values to the specified format or move the cursor to next wildcard section when I tried to type or right-arrow past non-wildcard characters of the mask or press space in front of non-wildcard characters like RadMaskedEditBox does. I've tried setting FormattingEnabled to True and False. Any ideas? Thanks.

BTW, what are the DisplayMember and ValueMember Properties for?

ComboBox and ListBox (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 27 Jul 2009

5 answers

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Grid filters not functioning when grid is not editable

User is unable to enter filter values when MasterGridViewTemplate.AllowEditRow is false.

GridView

answered on 27 Jul 2009

1 answer

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How do I access a grid on a DocumentWindow?

My main form loads a RadDock and a toolWindow containing a PanelBar and RadList.

On clicking items in the RadList a new DocumentWindow is opened. This window is a class which inherits from DocumentWindow.

This loads the document window

    
            LogDocument documentLog = new LogDocument(); 
        
            documentLog.Text = documentTitle; 
        
            documentLog.CurrentFileId = selectedIndex; 
        
            documentLog.Load();  // Loads data into grid 
        
            AirFile.AddNewMostRecentFile(documentTitle, selectedIndex); 
        
            this.radDock.AddDocument(documentLog);

My inherited class (only some of it for brevity)

    
                class LogDocument : DocumentWindow 
        
                { 
        
                    public LogDocument() 
        
                    { 
        
                         AddGridToForm(); 
        
                    } 
        
                    public void Load() 
        
                    { 
        
                         LoadGridWithData(); 
        
                    } 
        
                    private void AddGridToForm() 
        
                    { 
        
                        RadTabStrip radTabStrip = new Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadTabStrip(); 
        
                        TabItem tabGridItem = new Telerik.WinControls.UI.TabItem(); 
        
                        TabItem tabDetailItem = new Telerik.WinControls.UI.TabItem(); 
        
                        //  
        
                        // radTabStrip1 
        
                        //  
        
                        radTabStrip.AutoScrollMargin = new System.Drawing.Size(0, 0); 
        
                        radTabStrip.AutoScrollMinSize = new System.Drawing.Size(0, 0); 
        
                        radTabStrip.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(((int)(((byte)(191)))), ((int)(((byte)(219)))), ((int)(((byte)(254))))); 
        
                        radTabStrip.Dock = DockStyle.Fill; 
        
                        radTabStrip.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0); 
        
                        radTabStrip.Name = "radTabStrip"; 
        
                        radTabStrip.ScrollOffsetStep = 5; 
        
                        radTabStrip.TabScrollButtonsPosition = Telerik.WinControls.UI.TabScrollButtonsPosition.RightBottom; 
        
                        radTabStrip.Text = "radTabStrip"; 
        
                        //  
        
                        // tabGridItem 
        
                        //  
        
                        tabGridItem.Alignment = System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.BottomLeft; 
        
                        //  
        
                        // tabItem1.ContentPanel 
        
                        //  
        
                        tabGridItem.ContentPanel.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent; 
        
                        tabGridItem.ContentPanel.CausesValidation = true; 
        
                        tabGridItem.IsSelected = true; 
        
                        tabGridItem.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(4, 0, 0, 0); 
        
                        tabGridItem.Name = "tabGridItem"; 
        
                        tabGridItem.StretchHorizontally = false; 
        
                        tabGridItem.Text = "Grid"; 
        
                        //  
        
                        // tabItem2 
        
                        //  
        
                        tabDetailItem.Alignment = System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.BottomLeft; 
        
                        //  
        
                        // tabItem2.ContentPanel 
        
                        //  
        
                        tabDetailItem.ContentPanel.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent; 
        
                        tabDetailItem.ContentPanel.CausesValidation = true; 
        
                        tabDetailItem.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(4, 0, 0, 0); 
        
                        tabDetailItem.Name = "tabDetailItem"; 
        
                        tabDetailItem.StretchHorizontally = false; 
        
                        tabDetailItem.Text = "Item Detail"; 
        
                        // TODO 
        
                        // Add controls to show current row details in a form 
        
                        grid.Dock = DockStyle.Fill; 
        
                        grid.RowsChanged += new Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewCollectionChangedEventHandler(GridRowsChanged); 
        
                        grid.DoubleClick += new System.EventHandler(GridDoubleClick); 
        
                        // 
        
                        // Add TabItems to TabStrip 
        
                        // 
        
                        radTabStrip.Items.AddRange(new Telerik.WinControls.RadItem[] { tabGridItem, tabDetailItem }); 
        
                        // 
        
                        // Add grid to tab 1 
        
                        // 
        
                        tabGridItem.ContentPanel.Controls.Add(grid); 
        
                        // 
        
                        // Add tab strip to form 
        
                        // 
        
                        Controls.Add(radTabStrip); 
        
                    } 
        
                    /// <summary> 
        
                    /// Persist changes to current row to database. 
        
                    /// </summary> 
        
                    /// <param name="sender"></param> 
        
                    /// <param name="e"></param> 
        
                    private void GridRowsChanged(object sender, GridViewCollectionChangedEventArgs e) 
        
                    { 
        
                        Save(); 
        
                    }

In the constructor I add controls to the document including a RadGrid. When many documents are opened I have a UI similar to VisualStudio.

My Main form has a menu containing a delete button. When this button is clicked I want to delete the current grid row on the current active window.

My difficulty is that I cannot figure out how to reference the "delete item" code in the class LogWindow:

    
                    public void DeleteRow() 
        
                    { 
        
                        // Delete code here 
        
                        // then save changes to db 
        
                        Save(); 
        
                    }

Any help would be appreciated.

Dock

answered on 27 Jul 2009

2 answers

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Theme and inheritance

Hi,

may be this question has been solved here but I cannot find it in the different threads. I have a class deriving from RadGridView. For example, say the class Grid in the test namespace. In design mode, the ThemeClassName property is set to the actual class name by the designer, so test.Grid in the example. But the problem is that I cannot find the theme names I want in the drop down list. If I force the ThemeClassName property to "Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadGridView", the drop down list is filled with the right theme names but as soon as I save the file the designer reset the ThemeClassName to test.Grid, as I can see it in the file.
So I found the way to force ThemeClassName = "Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadGridView" in the test.Grid constructor but it works in run time only; I cannot see the theme names in design mode.
What is the good way to proceed to apply themes to a derived class ?

thanks.

Themes and Visual Style Builder

answered on 25 Jul 2009

2 answers

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Error when right click on grouped row

Hello,

If I have a RadgridView and group by a column, colapse all the rows, then right click on one of the rows (on the blue group name in the RadGridView) I get the following error:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadGridView.ValidateColumnChange(GridViewColumn column)

at Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewTemplate.SetCurrentColumn(GridViewColumn column, Boolean update, Boolean shift, Boolean control)

at Telerik.WinControls.UI.BaseGridBehavior.SetCurrentPosition(GridRowElement row, GridCellElement cell)

at Telerik.WinControls.UI.BaseGridBehavior.OnMouseDownRight(MouseEventArgs e)

at Telerik.WinControls.UI.BaseGridBehavior.OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)

at Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadGridView.OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseDown(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)

at Telerik.WinControls.RadControl.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

GridView

answered on 24 Jul 2009

2 answers

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RadButton ButtonElement and Screen Tip

Hi,

I was wondering why the ButtonElement of the RadButton is not available through the designer. I see that rootElement is, but if I add a screen tip to that, then the screen tip doesn't show, which is quite confusing.

I've had to add a shared method to our controls project to allow us to add screen tips to buttons like so..

    
                Public Shared Sub AddScreenTip(ByVal button As RadButton, ByVal headerText As String, ByVal bodyText As String)  
        
                    If Not button.ButtonElement.ScreenTip Is Nothing Then 
        
                        button.ButtonElement.ScreenTip.Items.Clear()  
        
                    End If 
        
                    Dim Tip As New RadOffice2007ScreenTipElement()  
        
                    Tip.CaptionLabel.Text = headerText  
        
                    Tip.MainTextLabel.Text = bodyText  
        
                    button.ButtonElement.ScreenTip = Tip  
        
                End Sub

It seems strange to have to add screen tips this way. Could a Screen Tip interface be added to the RadButton at it's root level please?
Thanks

Richard

Buttons, RadioButton, CheckBox, etc

answered on 24 Jul 2009