Hi!

Is its possible to add a button next to the close button in the far right corner of a dock control in mdi tab mode ?

I want to have a "create new tab" button next to the close button :)

Regards,
Per

Hi,

I am trying to provide my user with a "open in new window" capability from the RadDock interface. The user will generally open new screens in new tabs but there is an extra button which will allow them to "float" any particular tab so it becomes an independent window.

I'm guessing the best way to achieve this within the RadDock framework is to create a new floating ToolWindow for the Document when the user presses the "open in new window" button. This way we can allow them to re-dock it to the DockManager later if they wish.

My approach would be

ToolWindow tw = new ToolWindow; // create the new toolwindow
tw.CloseAction = CloseAndDispose; // I always do this.
this.documentTabStrip.ControlsAdd(tw); // Add the toolwindow to the tab strip.
this.radDock.ActiveWindow.Parent = tw; // Switch the parent of the current document to the toolwindow
tw.Float(new Rectangle(0,0,500,500)); // Float the new toolwindow

Unfortunately it doesn't seem that simple. I got a couple of problems doing this;
1) The change of parent for a large form (40-50 textboxes) takes a long time, and causes visual flickering and glitching.
2) The transferred DockWindow is not dock.Fill inside the ToolWindow. It retains the size it was at the point where ownership was transferred. I can't seem to find a way of getting the transferred DockWindow to resize itself when transferred.
3) The transferred DockWindow seems to have a blank TabItem associated with it, so doesn't visually work - it leaves  gap for displaying the tab at the top of the toolwindow.

Subsequently I changed my approach to transfer the internal top level control for the DockWindow rather than the DockWindow itself, like this;

ToolWindow tw = new ToolWindow();
tw.CloseAction = CloseAndDispose;
Control controlToBeTransferred = this.radDock.ActiveWindow.Controls[0]; // Assumes a containerControl at top level.
ths.documentTabStrip.Controls.Add(tw);
controlToBeTransferred.Parent = tw;
tw.AutoScroll = true;
this.radDock.ActiveWindow.Close(); // It no longer has anything in it.
tw.Float(new Rectangle(0,0,500,500));

And this seems to work fine now. Thought the Forum would be interested.

Hi,
I have setup CommandBinding on my RadSpinEditor with Command as FocusCommand. Upon pressing the shortcut using keyword, spinEditor does not gain focus.

I see similar problems with RadComboBox also. Please help me in setting up focus on these controls using keyboard shortcut.

Thanks
Ankur

Hi,

I am working on the hierarchical gridview. I need to display all the customers in the Parent grid and orders by the customer in child grid.
I want to load all the customers when the form loads and to click on the expand row to view the orders related to that customer.
Is it possible and how? do the gridview supports load on demand?

Thanks.

Hey Guys,

Hello again, I have seen in the theme that controls VistaTelerik editors of color filters is equal to the letter from the editor background color. Ie, the color of the letter is white like the background color, can help with this, ie VistaTelerik to change the theme of the color or black letter is a code for this change, giving hope to ented . Thanks for all the assistance and thanks in advance

Hi,

I programmatically create interfaces rather than use VS.net Designer, and almost all Telerik Windows Forms controls work Ok with this, however I cannot get the toolstrip to render correctly using the default application theme. If I switch default application themes having created and loaded my new toolstrip it renders correctly but until I toggle the theme it looks poor.

I try to work around this by calling  the following for each control I create at runtime;

 

private void applyThemeToGeneratedControl(Telerik.WinControls.RadControl control)

 

{

control.ThemeName = Telerik.WinControls.

ThemeResolutionService.ApplicationThemeName;

 

control.RootElement.ForceReApplyStyle();

control.RootElement.ForceApplyTheme();

}

which does work for the majority of controls, but not for toolstrip.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here ?

Thanks,
Phillip

Hello,

I am having trouble applying a theme to the DocumentTabStrip which is created when adding a Tabbed Document to a RadDock.  I have the Visual Style Builder to create a style for a RadTabStrip which functions perfectly but cannot be applied to the DocumentTabStrip.  I tried to create a style for the DocumentPresenterControl but when I load the default theme for it there are no states defined for the FillPrimitive for the DockableTab (even though the preview shows different states for Selected/MouseOver/etc.).  I am able to get my RadTabStrip theme to show in the design view of VS2008 by loading documentTabStrip from assembly in Visual Style Builder and modifying a setting so that I can save it to my .xml file and apply my custom theme to documentTabStrip1 in my project, but when I run the program the theme returns to the default theme.

Where am I going wrong?  I have been trying for quite some time to apply a custom theme to the DocumentTabStrip and am at a loss on what to try next.  Also, when I did load the documentTabStrip into Visual Style Builder from the assembly, nothing appeared in either Design View/Preview but there were elements in the Control Structure.

Thanks!

The Q2 2009 RadDock control does not SetStyle(ControlStyles.ContainerControl) and so is not seen in .net as a ContainerControl. This causes problems when calling Form.ValidateChildren or Control.Validate to force validation of controls held in a RadDock window.

My workaround is to explicitly handle the radDock_Validating event in my code like this;

private void radDock_Validating(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
{   
    if(! ((ContainerControl)this.radDock.ActiveWindow).Validate())
    {
        e.Cancel = true;
    }
}

The .net framework behaves oddly when cascading the Validate event through a control stack, and instead of simply iterating a controls .Controls collection, it explicitly checks to see if a the Control.GetStyle(ControlStyles.ContainerControl) is true before deciding to iteratve the .Controls collection. Because RadDock does not set this property it is in effect telling the .net Framework "I don't have any children, so don't bother looking any further". By manually cascading the Validating event as shown above, we jump this gap.
 
I don't know if this particular pattern is followed in any other cascading functionality in the .net framework.

When I Refresh a Datasource, mi binding go to First Position and my RadGridView Collapse, the problem is that the user have to re group again to go the row specific...

I need to know how to avoid this, or if exist any other method..

I have two Windows, one is only to edit or insert data, when i close the modal popup i return to previous where i have the radgridview thats why i neet to refresh it, to show the data updated.