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The month display jumps out of its region

Helo.

When you make an Outlook Addin (2007) and you use the DateTimePicker on a form the month display jumps out of its region if you click on the dropdown button when it's already open. The same happens also in a normal Winforms project if you doubleclick fast enough.

Screenshot of the problem:
http://www.shrani.si/f/1Y/1C/2uDt7Esk/outlookaddin.png

Calendar, DateTimePicker, TimePicker and Clock

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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RadTabStrip

In the beta, the TabStrip does not shorten tab labels correctly if there is not enough space. Writes over to the next tab Strip.
Used to work in Q1

Regards
Erwin

Dock

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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RadWaitingBar doesn't refresh

Hi All

I have a redWautingBar on a radForm.

When I initiate a long running task I call StartWait and every 10 time round the loop call the Refresh() method.

if(visible) radWaitingBar1.StartWaiting();
            else radWaitingBar1.EndWaiting();
            radWaitingBar1.Visible = visible;

void s_UpdateStatus(string status, int progress)
        {
            if ((progress % 10) == 0)
            {
                radWaitingBar1.Refresh();
                this.Refresh();
            }
        }

However the control doesn't scroll untill the process is over.

The stock .Net control works but looks nowhere as good.

Where have I gone wrong?!

Thanks in advance

Panelbar (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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Form is slow to appear with the RibbonBar

Hello,

I write this message because I noticed that my form is slow to appear with RibbonBar.

So I had the idea to put a splashscreen to show loading of the application but is also the splashscreen is slow to appear.

I show the splashscreen and I use the Load event of the splashscreen. In this event, I set the Visible property to False of the form containing the RibbonBar and I used the Show property of this form.

And in the Load event of the form, I close the splashscreen and I put the Visible property to True to form with RibbonBar

But that does not work, the splashscreen is slow to appear.

I hope the splashscreen appears immediately and once the form with RibbonBar loaded, I close the splashscreen form and I show the form.

Is this possible ?

RibbonBar

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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DocumentPane Activate Event fires twice

Hi

I am evaluating the docking controls at the moment and have a few issues.

Is there an easy way to tell when a DocumentPane becomes active. There looked to be a promising event on the DockingManager (DockTabChanged) but this doesn't seem to get fired when tabs are added or deleted or the document pane is split.

The DockingWindow activate event seems to allow me to do what I want, but I have to add event handlers to each Document (which is doable but a pain). However the event fires twice for each activation (which is a pain to deal with). This is evident in your TabbedDocument sample (2009 Q1).

Thanks

Simon

Dock

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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DocumentWindow Close and Tab Activation

In the old Docking Manager, when I close a window (context menu on Tab) the prior tab gets active:

A B C D E F

when I close D, C gets active, which I find more logical

In the Beta, when I close C, F gets active, confusing if you have more than 2 or 3 documents open.

Regards
Erwin

Dock

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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Double Square icon if shaped form is maximized not visible

Hi,

I am using Shaped Form of Telerik Winform Q1 2009.
When i maximize my form all i get single square shaped icon and not double unlike windows form.

Please is this limitation or there is a property to address this issue.

Regards,
Hemal

ShapedForm

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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RadForm Normalize Icon Incorrect

Environment:

* WinForms 2009 Q1 SP1 (2009.1 414)

* VS 2008 SP1

* Windows XP Pro SP3

When a WinForm is normalized, the middle icon in the control box (right side of title bar) is a single box with a thicker top. Clicking this button to maximize the form, the middle icon changes to two overlapping boxes, singifying that you can normalize the form by clicking this button.

Just by changing the WinForm to a RadForm and doing nothing else, you lose the overlapping box icon when the RadForm is maximized. I.E., the RadForm always displays the single box with a thicker top, whether currently normalized or maximized.

To reproduce:

* Start a vanilla VB Winforms project

* Drag a RadButton onto the form, then delete the button (this auto sets refs to Telerik assemblies)

* In Form1.Designer.vb, make the form inherit from Telerik.WinControls.RadForm

* Run the project. The form is normalized and displays the correct middle icon in the control box.

* Maximize the form. The form is maximized and still displays the "maximize" icon, instead of displaying the overlapping boxes.

A pair of bitmaps illustrating the issue (one WinForm, one w/RadForm) is one folder down in the zip file, which also contains a sample VS2008 project:

Sample Project and Bitmap of Issue

If you don't fix this (and the other issue I just posted in this area), I'll have to redo my form as a vanilla WinForm. When shall I expect a fix for this?

-James Frater, Creative Software Solutions csoftwares.com

Form

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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First steps with the new Docking Framework

Hi,

I managed to port parts of my app to the new docking framework, was relatively painless once I found out how to convert UserDockForms.
A lot of things are more logical than before, performance not bad apart from a few redrawing glitches.

- Too bad that the DockWindow Image is still not shown in the drop down menu of the docking tab strip
- Maximizing the app with a couple of docked documents leads to excessive redraw and takes much longer than with the old framework
(DockManager on a simple Windows Form with RadMenu and RadTabStrip)
- This depends on the machine, on my Dell XPS quad core with 4Gig and nice graphics performance is acceptable, still some noticeable flickering though

Regards
Erwin

Dock

answered on 12 Jun 2009

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Error in Column

Hi..
I'm using ADO Entity Framework and displaying information in a GridView...
But I have a problem...
This is the code I use to obtain information:

radGridView1.DataSource = context.CF_Actividad.Select(

"it.ACT_Clave as [clave.clave], it.ACT_Descripcion").Execute(System.Data.Objects.MergeOption.OverwriteChanges);

note: CF_Actividad is my table.

well, ACT_Clave column has an alias, when this alias contains a dot(.), the information in this column is not displayed..
However, the information in the column description, if displayed.
The problem is when has a dot in the alias..
Thanks!!

GridView

answered on 12 Jun 2009