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GridView with Child List All Automatically expanded

I have a gridview with a child list and I want all records
and lists to be fully expanded (opened) verses collapsed. What is the recommended approach to this scenario?

Thank you.

GridView

answered on 22 Aug 2008

4 answers

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[Solved] radCalendar Theme issue

I an creating a custom date picker control using the radCalendar. (The radDatetime picker does not allow for some of the calendar options our client has requested).

The user control uses a ToolStripDropDown to display the radCalendar control when the user clicks a button.

My problem is the theme is not applied from the second through xth instance of the user control. The first instance added to a form will always theme correctly.

Below is a snippet of code from the user control showing the creation of the radCalendar, ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropdown control.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris

    
                    //Create the calendar 
        
                        RadCalendar radCalendar = new RadCalendar(); 
        
                        radCalendar.Orientation = Orientation.Horizontal; 
        
                        radCalendar.DayNameFormat = Telerik.WinControls.UI.DayNameFormat.Full; 
        
                        radCalendar.ShowRowHeaders = false; 
        
                        radCalendar.ShowColumnHeaders = true; 
        
                        radCalendar.AllowMultipleView = true; 
        
                        radCalendar.MultiViewColumns = 2; 
        
                        radCalendar.ThemeName = "Office2007Blue"; 
        
                        radCalendar.Size = new Size(462, 275); 
        
                        radCalendar.SelectionChanged += new EventHandler(radCalendar_SelectionChanged); 
        
                        //Create the Calendar Host 
        
                        _calendarHost = new ToolStripControlHost(radCalendar); 
        
                        _calendarHost.Height = radCalendar.Height; 
        
                        _calendarHost.Width = radCalendar.Width; 
        
                        //Create the drop down 
        
                        _dropDown = new ToolStripDropDown(); 
        
                        _dropDown.Width = radCalendar.Width; 
        
                        _dropDown.Height = radCalendar.HeaderHeight; 
        
                        _dropDown.VisibleChanged += new EventHandler(_dropDown_VisibleChanged); 
        
                        _dropDown.Items.Add(_calendarHost);

Calendar, DateTimePicker, TimePicker and Clock

answered on 22 Aug 2008

2 answers

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[Solved] HostedControl of a radlabel

How do I change (in VB.Net) the properties of the hosted control a radlabel?

What I'm trying to do is set the UseMnemonic property to false.

Ryan

Label

answered on 22 Aug 2008

4 answers

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Using RadChart with the RadRotator

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to get the radChart to display in the RadRotator.. it would be nice to have a series of charts of data that rotates over time... How would I go about this, since the rotator only seems to take RadItems?

Thanks,

Rotator

answered on 22 Aug 2008

1 answer

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Collapse symbol

I am using following code

radgridview1.GridElement.BeginUpdate()

For Each row As GridViewDataRowInfo In radgridview1.Rows

row.IsExpanded =

True

radgridview1.GridElement.EndUpdate()

The hierachical rows and child rows are showing fine. However symbol for collapsing is missing. I am using Vista theme.

In another form using same properties and theme ^ and upside down ^ shows up for expanding and collapsing. What could be the reason?

Regards ... DP

GridView

answered on 22 Aug 2008

1 answer

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[Solved] Change tab color and restore to original color

As per the instructions given in this thread: http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/thread/b311D-mkmhd.aspx I was able to successfully change the backcolor of a tab programmatically. When I try to reset the tab color back to its original color, it works fine, except that the color stays changed until I hover over the tab, and then it fully returns to normal.

For example, I have a tab strip with the default blue colored tabs. I click a button to change one of the tabs to yellow, and it works. I click another button to change the color back to the original blue color, but the tab still remains yellow. When I hover my mouse over the yellow tab, it changes to the hover color, and when I hover away from the tab, it returns to its original blue color.

Here is a sample of my code used to make the tab turn yellow:

    
                        Dim oFillSelector As New ClassSelector("TabFill") 
        
                        Dim oTabFill As FillPrimitive = TryCast(oFillSelector.GetSelectedElements(Me.tsTabs.SelectedTab)(0), FillPrimitive) 
        
                        If oTabFill.BackColor <> Color.Yellow Then 
        
                            oTabFill.BackColor = Color.Yellow 
        
                            oTabFill.BackColor2 = Color.Yellow 
        
                            oTabFill.BackColor3 = Color.Yellow 
        
                            oTabFill.BackColor4 = Color.Yellow 
        
                        End If

Here is the code I use to return all tabs to their default color:

    
            For i as int32 = 0 to Me.tsTabs.Items.Count -1 
        
                    Dim oFillSelector As New ClassSelector("TabFill") 
        
                    Dim oTabFill As FillPrimitive = TryCast(oFillSelector.GetSelectedElements(Me.tsTabs.Items(i))(0), FillPrimitive) 
        
                    oTabFill.ResetValue(FillPrimitive.BackColorProperty) 
        
                    oTabFill.ResetValue(FillPrimitive.BackColor2Property) 
        
                    oTabFill.ResetValue(FillPrimitive.BackColor3Property) 
        
                    oTabFill.ResetValue(FillPrimitive.BackColor4Property) 
        
            Next

Please let me know what I am doing wrong, as it is quite annoying to have to hover over all the tabs everytime I want to see which ones are really supposed to have a different backcolor.

Tabstrip (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 22 Aug 2008

3 answers

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performance questions

I am noticing some "artifacts" when maximizing or resizing a window using docked panels. There are blocks of dead space that appear temporarily, and one control we are using dances around quite a bit before settling down (it's being redrawn frequently and it doesn't draw quickly).

What can be done about these artifacts? We're using the Q2 2008 codebase.

Dock

answered on 21 Aug 2008

9 answers

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Problem with Q2 2008 in project originally made on Q1 2008

I have project with RadControls for WinForms used within (docking manager, text boxes, tabstrips, labels, buttons) which was made using Q1 2008 controls. Now after upgrading to Q2 2008 I get following message when entering design view. I have to click through the same dialog 5 times (or so) and then designer shows up. What could be the problem? Any clues?

http://mf.ederon.net/telerik/telerik_glypths.jpg

Daniel

General Discussions

answered on 21 Aug 2008

3 answers

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Tab key bug

Hi,

I have a grid that is displayed in RightToLeft Mode
and when i press the Tab key on a cell it passes to the next cell
but when it gets to the last cell on the row it gows up
instead of down.
(without the RightToLeft mode it works fine)

Thanks in advance.

GridView

answered on 21 Aug 2008

2 answers

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Filtering multicolumn combo box?

any known workaround / hacks to do filtering in the multicolumn combo box, at this point?

I sort of have a working version and wanted to see if anyone else had an implementation.

basically, I pay attention to the cbo.MultiColumnComboBoxElement.TextChanged event. When you type into the box, i grab the text and manually find the items in my collection that fit the text entered, then re-set the combo box data source to the filtered list.

this "works", but has some strange side effects and UI usability problems. for example, i have to manually click the drop down arrow, or use the cbo.MultiColumnComboBoxElement.Editor.ShowPopup(); call, to get the grid to pop up. when i do this with either method, though, the pop up has strange behaviour of auto resizing when i don't want it to (when zero items in list it shrinks, then changing filter and it won't resize larger, so i have to clear the filter, close the pop up, and open it again).

anyone else have a working implementation of filtering for the multi column combo box?

MultiColumn ComboBox

answered on 21 Aug 2008