Hi,

I'm new to RadControls.  We're in the process of replacing our existing grid control with RadControls' GridView.  I've been tasked with theming GridView to look like the existing grid.

The existing grid is very conservative and uses standard scrollbars.  If a user changes their Windows Appearance settings through the Windows Control Panel > Display, the color scheme they select will affect the scrollbars of our existing grid.  Is it possible to achieve the same thing with RadControls GridView?

I've been trying to find the answer and haven't had much luck finding others talking about this issue.  Thank you for any assistance you might be able to provide in pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks,

-C.Scott

Hi,
I have a GridView control with 3 columns. The first is a text column, the second is a combobox column and the third is a command column.
Basically, all the gridview values are readonly so I don't need to change them.
I have been trying to add items to the gridview through code but I can't find a the way to insert the values into the combobox cell. I'm using the Add method of the Rows collection but I don't know what value to pass to it. (I have been trying different ways). In the documentation there's only an example of strings or numbers that are pass to the Add method.
ANother question in the same subject, how can I initialize my grid from an xml file - I look at this link:
http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-ehc-b454T-bhb-b454c-bhb.aspx
but some of the objects are not recognized - like 'GridBoundColumn'. Is there a

certain format that the xml file should be in, so the values will be set to the right cells

Hi guys, fyi I noticed when I change the property

         this.FormElement.TitleBar.IconPrimitive.Visibility = Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed;

In the designer, it does as expected and looks great but when I run the app it has no efffect..  seems the designer does not persist the setting for whatever reason, although I was able to insert it into my form_load() code and it works great.

cheers
ewart

The tree node text is very light.  You can see it in the TreeView theming sample application.  Interestingly, in the PanelBar sample, the TreeView text on the Mail panel looks good.

I'd like to see a Task Dialog that takes on a custom theme.  There are other products to easily use Task Dialogs, but they can't be themed with the same style as the rest of the application.

Hi
I use this control in a MDIParent....
How I can put in Start Menu the list of active MDIchildren forms?

In MenuStrip of .NET the code is:

Me

.WindowsMenu = New System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem

Me.MenuStrip.MdiWindowListItem = Me.WindowsMenu

Then when a user open a new form the name of this form is added to the list (Me.WindowsMenu) 

Hi Guys,

<rant>sometimes I really wonder if there is any quality control before rolling out new software releases. i am really a supporter of telerik controls, but such problems I come accross are really a pain in the arse.
my suggestion is to put more effort into quality than new flashy features.....
this theme-thingy and visual style builder does not even deserve the title "beta"-version in my opinion</rant>

since my last therming issue, where we at last achived it to successfully load a ressource-file into thememanager, i focused on more important bits and pieces of my application.
but now i am back to style my application and...well, i actually dont care much if visual studio renders the application and controls at design-time in wrong colors and styles(as it does sometimes...) as long as it does it right when starting the application. but it really fucks me off, if it is the other way around.

i am still using RadControls for Winforms Q1 2008 SP1

I am trying to style a textbox... to paint the background grey if it gets the focus.
plus I dont want to paint a border, so I set the border-property in visual style builder to hidden and the forecolor to transparent(bec. hidden is apparently not quite hidden?!?!?). the result is a thinner than usual textbox. it gets displayed the right way in visual studio design view, but just after i set the theme-name at the control again.
but when I close and reload the form with the designer it gets displayed wrong again. it also gets displayed wrong when starting the application.

when i look into my theme-style.xml i see several entries named something with "textbox". is there a mixup occured???!???

what i want is simply a way how to style my application.
but this try and error approach i am doing at the moment is 1. very time consuming, 2. very frustrating and 3. not acceptable. i am way faster to edit/style the ui-items of every control individually and this cant be the way doing it!??

i will supply you with a screenshot if you cant follow my explanations...

best regards

Hi,

I use a custom save/load layout of a RadGridView... Basically I save/load column and grid properties as an xml file in a database.

My problem is that when I load and set the Group By Expressions, the group panel appears over the column headers. If I resize the form or fill the grid with data, the group panel takes its proper position above the column headers.

Furthermore, the UpdateGroupPanel() seems to be missing from the grid as a method. Instead, it appears as an obsolete method of MasterGridViewTemplate.

I do use SuspendLayout() and ResumeLayout() befaore and after the loading.

How can I get around this? If the UpdateGroupPanel has to be used by the owner grid, where is this method in Q2 2008 SP1?

How can I put RadListBoxes inside a RadPanelbar?

How do you add a RadContextMenu to a node in the treeview?

The RadContextMenuManager allows you to add a RadContextMenu to the RadTreeView control but that only gives you the ability to add a context menu to the whole control regardless of where it is clicked.

The RadTreeNode has a ContextMenu property but it is of type RadDropDownMenu which has previously been said to be obsolete.  Since the RadDropDownMenu is no longer part of the Toolbox, manually changing the RadContextMenu to a RadDropDownMenu allows it to be added to a treeview node but this does not seem to be the correct way to do this. 

radTreeNode1.ContextMenu = radDropDownMenu;

Are there any other ways to do this?