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CurrentColumn

Hello,

With SP2 as it is that now I know which is CurrentColumn

Before it used:
Dim col As GridViewDataColumn
col = CType(radGridView1.MasterGridViewInfo.CurrentColumn, GridViewDataColumn)

GridView

answered on 12 Jul 2007

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Set the height of the column header

How to set the height for the column header? I wanted to display 2 lines of text in the column header?

Second thing; the performance of the controls is pretty slow. Is any way to speed up the running time?

thanks

GridView

answered on 12 Jul 2007

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Latest help file has nothing new in "What's new"!

Hello
Just downloaded SP2 for winforms, and the help file has nothing new in the "What's new" section. Anything to report on here??<G>

THanks
Harold

GridView

answered on 12 Jul 2007

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Grid Doc's mistake

Hello

In looking at this code in "customizing gridgroupheaderitem", i noticed that it is for the grid web control, NOT the winform control!

private void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, Telerik.WebControls.GridItemEventArgs e) 
{ 
 if ( e.Item is GridGroupHeaderItem ) 
 { 
  GridGroupHeaderItem item = (GridGroupHeaderItem)e.Item; 
  DataRowView groupDataRow = (DataRowView)e.Item.DataItem; 
 
  //Clear the present text of the cell 
  item.DataCell.Text = ""; 
  foreach( DataColumn column in groupDataRow.DataView.Table.Columns) 
 
  //Check the condition and add only the field you need 
  if ( column.ColumnName == "Country" ) 
  { 
   item.DataCell.Text += "Customized display - Country is " + groupDataRow 
   ["Country"].ToString(); 
  } 
 } 
} 
 

Thought you might want to know!
Harold

GridView

answered on 12 Jul 2007

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Height of R.A.D ComboBOX

Hi All ,

I am not able to make my rad Combobox heing small in height can any one help

thanks

ComboBox and ListBox (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 12 Jul 2007

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grid not updating

I have a IBindingList of INotifyPropertyChanged objects as the datasource for my datagrid.

The grid seems to handel the events from the IBindingList just fine, but the events from the INotifyPropertyChanged don't seem to get caught.

I put a basic Winform GridViewControll In the same form, and with the same datasource and that seems to be working just fine.

Is there some magic bit that I ahve to flip some place for this to work, or is this feature not supported in the RadGridView ?

GridView

answered on 12 Jul 2007

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Formatting column headers

Hello

I am reading in an XML file that was created in VFP. I have the VFP client extract a table to XML and it also generates the schema file. I have my WinForm app read in the schema ( DataSet.ReadXmlSchema() ) and then have it read in the xml data file. That works great. But the RadGrid is unformatted. I would like to format the column headers and the column spacing. Can I pre-format the grid to the XML schema, or can it be done dynamically when the dataset that is bound to the grid is defined by the schema??

Thanks!
Harold

GridView

answered on 12 Jul 2007

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Installing SP2

What's the best way of installing SP2?

I have SP1 installed - should I de-install it first and install SP2 or should I install over SP1?

Do I need to update anything manually, such as the toolbox or global assembly cache?

Thanks for your help.

General Discussions

answered on 11 Jul 2007

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setting border around titleBar

I encountered a problem using RadTitleBar with ShapedForm. When docked to the top it coveres window border... makes it look pretty ugly.

So, I found several ways to work around this problem, and as I couldn't find any documentation on how to solve it I thought I'd post what I found for people who encounter the same kind of problem.

Solution #1, simplest
Just make the border to be the same color as your title bar. This is very easy. It works ok, but if the window is on top of another window with similar colors it might be hard to actually see the edges of the window. Here's a sample of what it looks like: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-ttk-b454T-ckd-b454c-ckd.aspx

Solution #2
simulate border around title bar using padding, background color and Shape

here's a code example:

public partial class Form1 : ShapedForm  

{  

    public Form1()  

    {  

        InitializeComponent();  

        RoundRectShape shape = new RoundRectShape( 5 );  

        shape.DeserializeProperties( "5, False, True, False, True" );  

        this.Shape = shape;  

        int borderSize = 1;  

        RootRadElement titleRoot = this.radTitleBar1.RootElement;  

        titleRoot.Padding = new Padding( borderSize, borderSize, 50, 0 );  

        titleRoot.BackColor = Color.Black;  

        RadElement rootChild = titleRoot.Children[0];  

        rootChild.Margin = new Padding( 0, 0, borderSize, 0 );  

        rootChild.Shape = shape;  

    }  

}

It sets shape for the current form, then shape for the title bar and uses padding to move title bar slightly and sets background color to show the color (black in this case).

Couple of things to note:

Setting right padding on the title root element has no effect (I have 50 and it acts like it's 0). To overcome that I set right padding on the 1st child of the title bar.
I use deserialize properties to set rounder corners only for top left/right corners. I "borrowed" the idea from the QSF source code. It's not documented anywhere it seems.... how many more hidden gems are there in rad framework?
If you want to use status bar... well, don't, it's hard to get it to work.
I tried padding the form instead of the title bar, but it didn't work as well.
Why does this have to be so hard? Why not just create a special ChromeForm class in addition to ShapedForm that would have title bar (or ribbon), with borders, with status bar, all taken care of? It feels too much like I'm hacking, just the way I hack with CSS...

Well, hope this is helpful.

TitleBar

answered on 11 Jul 2007

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Adjusting the layout of the panelbar

What I'm attempting to do is put the caption text and the image on the right side of the panelbar. Setting it at runtime would be fine, but I'd rather be able to set them at design time if it's possible.

It seems that there are many ways to set this, but I'd like to know the right way.
I've been using the RadControlSpy to adjust the settings.
Navigating down the tree to the RadCaptionLayout and setting the CaptionButtonPosition to Right seems like the right thing, but it doesn't move the image.
Navigating to the ImagePrimitive and setting it's alignment to right moves the image, but it moves it past the end of the panelbar.

Is there a better way to make these changes?
I'm new to the telerik controls, so feel free to point out obvious things.
--
K

Panelbar (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 10 Jul 2007

	private void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, Telerik.WebControls.GridItemEventArgs e)
	{
	if ( e.Item is GridGroupHeaderItem )
	{
	GridGroupHeaderItem item = (GridGroupHeaderItem)e.Item;
	DataRowView groupDataRow = (DataRowView)e.Item.DataItem;

	//Clear the present text of the cell
	item.DataCell.Text = "";
	foreach( DataColumn column in groupDataRow.DataView.Table.Columns)

	//Check the condition and add only the field you need
	if ( column.ColumnName == "Country" )
	{
	item.DataCell.Text += "Customized display - Country is " + groupDataRow
	["Country"].ToString();
	}
	}
	}