Questions on UI for WinForms Forum

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In the "Adding Screen Tips" example I can't find a way to apply the screen tip template after clicking on the screen tip property drop-down-arrow. And if I just click off the pop-up the form will crash in the IDE (after close and reopen) because it has added design items that are not fully configured.

RibbonBar

answered on 23 Oct 2007

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TabItems disappear?

I drop two TabStrips, A and B onto a Form, where A contains B. If I set the Dock property to be Fill, I find that the items in A will be covered by B at Designer.
Is there a workaround to this peculiar phenomenon.

Thanks,
Ricky.

Tabstrip (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 23 Oct 2007

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RadRibbonBar

I am currently evaluating rad controls for WinForms and wonder if you have any examples of using the RadRibbonBar dynamically. I am able to add controls to a RibbonBarChunk dynamically based upon a selection from a database, with no problem. However I am struggling with how to interact with those newly added elements [gallery items]. By querying a database I add a ribbonbarchunk and then add galleryitems based upon the results of the query. I need now to add code which will perform a query on another database based upon the which galleryitem the user has clicked. I suppose my question is this. How do I write code for an event on a dynamically added galleryitem to a ribbonbarchunk? If you have any examples (preferably in VB) I would be most grateful.

Paul

RibbonBar

answered on 23 Oct 2007

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RadControls for WinForms Vs. Prometheus and Silverlight

Hello,

We currently have a browser based application that extensively utilizes RadControls for ASP.NET. We have been considering providing a second front-end option to our customers that would use RadControls for WinForms to address some performance issues we see occasionally that appear related to slow browser rendering on older machines using older browsers (we have some very large forms and grids in a few places).

Am I correct in assuming that both Prometheus and Silverlight versions are strictly for browser based applications? And if so, is there any reason to suspect there might be significant performance improvements in either of those versions in regards to browser rendering?

Also, I was able to find Product Roadmap info for the browser based stuff, but could not find anything about the WinForms stuff. Can you please provide some insight as to the direction you are headed and what the plan is for WPF support in that regard?

Thanks,
Tom

General Discussions

answered on 23 Oct 2007

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RadListBoxItem text alignment problem

Hello,

I'm adding items at run-time to a RadListBox. Some of the items need to be aligned to the left and others to the right.

For the items that need to be aligned to the right, I've tried the following methods:

item.TextAlignment = ContentAlignment.TopRight;

item.StringAlignment = StringAlignment.Far;

TextPrimitive primitive = (TextPrimitive)item.Children[2].Children[1].Children[0];
primitive.PaintTextFormat.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Far;
primitive.Alignment = ContentAlignment.TopRight;
primitive.StringAlignment = StringAlignment.Far;
primitive.TextFormatFlags = TextFormatFlags.Right;

And some other variations. But none of them work. At best, I get the text pushed a bit to the right: the longer the text string the further right it's pushed. That is, I get the following:

abc
asdfghjk
fdfhjsgkljshgadkjhsalkdhas

Any way to get the alignment to work right?

Thanks!

ComboBox and ListBox (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 22 Oct 2007

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how to set TextAlignment in GridViewCommandColumn

Hello.

I have a Windows Form and a RadGridView (with default theme), I added some columns manually using the RadGridView Property Builder (not from a database table or any datasource) and then I added a GridViewCommandColumn.

The problem is when I set the TextAlignment property of Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewCommandColumn to MiddleCenter (with DefaultText = "Print", UseDefaultText = True), the alignment doesn't change and the text in the GridViewCommandColumn is always aligned to MiddleLeft.

am I setting the TextAlignment in the wrong place?

Thanks in advance.

GridView

answered on 22 Oct 2007

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Not able to apply FillPrimitive - BackColor to the RadButton through visualStyleBuilder

Hi All,

Am just doing a simple exercise of creating a new theme for the radButton.

These are the steps am following
1) Open the VisualStyle Builder.
2) Load the RadButton control.
3) Select on FillPrimitive of the RadButtonElement and change the BackColor, BackColor2, BackColor3 , BackColor4 from default blue to anyother color.

Now at this stage I dont see any change in the color of the button.

However, If I change the Text:RadButton property under ImageAndTextLayoutPanel then I definitely see the change in the color of the text "RadButton" to whatever I select.
I can also apply different color to the button on IsMouseOverButton.

Why am I not able to see any change in the color of the button from standard blue to any selected one?

Looking forward for your reply.

Thanks
-barkha

Themes and Visual Style Builder

answered on 22 Oct 2007

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Equivalent control table

Hi,

I would really like to see a document which outlines which controls to replace the standard controls. It would be really neat to see this in the form of a quick reference table.

For example:

.Net Control    -    Telerik RadControl

Label              -    RadLabel
ComboBox      -    RadComboBox
StatusStrip      -    RadToolBar
ToolStrip         -    RadToolBar
Form              -    ShapedForm

A list of tips and tricks would not go astray either.

New Product Suggestions

answered on 22 Oct 2007

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2007 Q2 SP1: Rewource theme not listing

I'm adding in my theme as resource as embedded. Then adding it into a Theme Manager.

But it does not show amongst the available themes for the control. But I just write in the name of it anyway. The control then goes invisible in the Design GUI. But if I run the app, it works fine and uses that theme.

This was working in 2007 Q2 I think.

Themes and Visual Style Builder

answered on 22 Oct 2007

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data entry error reporting in Grid view.

Hey Guys,

I'm using a RadGridView bound via bindingSource to a List of custom objects. I want to be able to alert the user if they have entered invalid data when editing. (fails min/max or other such business rules)

in radGridView_CellFormatting() event I test for invalid data and if invalid, I want to set the Fore and Back color of the cell. (using ConditionalFormattingObject wasn't robust enough as I need to set tool tip with error details)

e.CellElement.ForeColor works no problem, but e.CellElement.BackColor will not set. (I set it to Color.Red, but still shows as white.)
Any ideas? (I'm using the default theme.)

Alternatively, is there any way to set an errorProvider for that cell? Or show an error icon in the cell? (setting image doesn't work because it can only be centered.... not left/right aligned)

OR is there a better way to go about alerting the user they've entered erroneous data? (and draw attention to the cell. )

Any and all help appreciated!!
Thanks.

GridView

answered on 19 Oct 2007