The lowly PictureBox ... it just sits there ... maybe once in awhile stretching an image, or perhaps centering it but generally it leads a pretty boring life.

so howza' bout the Telerik crew bring some snazzz to this lowly control?

Some suggestions:

1. Allow for gradient background colors for those times we use it as a "frame" for an image with a transparent background

2. a wider variety of border styles

3. Allow to fade the image

4. possibly allow for a glassy overlay

5 Rather than placing it on a RadPanel that has the fancy new dropshadow :) let the picturebox contol have its own dropshadow option

Steven Hodson
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One of the components I would like to see is an enhanced listview control that is easily accessible to the developer.

Some of the features I would like in such a beast are

1. Option straight image rather than having to use an imagelist
2. built-in sorting capabilities
3. built in support for sub-item images - both imagelist and straight images
4. Vista/Glass color for listviewitems (for a good example of this check out this listview control - http://www.flowsight.net/default.htm
5. also applicable to the above .. rounded corners

Ideally it would be nice to have a "listviewitem" designer so that you could design a template to be used. A couple of examples along this line would be

1. a listviewitem that would look like a shortend OneNote tab for one set of information with the body of the item being able to hold a graphic that could potentially be linked to other data - web page etc and the remainder of the space for oholder other information dislays - ie: text, links, dropdows etc.

2. a listview item that could like a card from a rolodex type thing

In my opinion the Listview is one of the most under utilized controls from a design perspective but holds the best method for a developer to display information.

the above could also apply to a listbox.

Now I know from my limited playing around with WPF (http://www.winextra.com/2006/11/28/my-first-vista-wpf-program/) that a lot of this type of thing is capable of being done in the WPF world but it would be really nice if this could be done for the standard .NET stuff as well.

Steven Hodson
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some additonal features

1. gradient colors - both for the actual text and/or the background
2. if the background is gradient then a dropshadow on the label area
3. if the background color is transparent dropshadow on the letters
4. a wider variety of border choices

Steven Hodson
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I mentioned this in another thread but I thought I would throw it in here as well just incase it gets lost.

One of the things I have never understood with VB and C# is why we are forced to have to use a Label and a TextBox in input screens. In Visual FoxPro the textbox has a caption setting that lets you add the type of info the textbox is for.

ie: [<Label>: [textbox]] = Name: [                 ]

All one control and much easier to work with.

Steven Hodson
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I changed a current application to use the RadTextbox and the application's focus after the screen is rendered stopped working. The only way to fix it is to remove EVERY RadTextbox on the application and replace them with the basic WinForms TextBox control.

Any particular reason why? I'd like to use them for their more flexible ability but I cannot even consider if I cannot have the focus ability.

Also, I didn't notice a RADIOBUTTON implementation? Did I miss it?

Here's a simple suggestion for one of those boring days when you all got nothing cool to do :)

A Wizard component that can be dropped on a form and let you setup one of those new fangled Wizards from the IDE Designer

Just a thought :)

Steven Hodson
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ummmm .. guys .....

Where's the word wrap for RadLabel?

The default Windows Label when AutoSize = False will wrap the text within it to the width of the label.

However your RadLabel doesn't appear to do this

Steven Hodson
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Afternoon everyone,

I'm having a slight problem right out of the gate trying to use an inherited ShapedForm.

I started a new project form and changed it to inherit the ShapedForm.
I set the ShapedForm color and border settings
Tried to run the project and got the following error:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Error while trying to run project: Unable to start program 'G:\Development\InstallBuilder\InstallBuilder\InstallBuilder\bin\Debug\InstallBuilder.exe'.

The requested operation requires elevation.

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OS Platform - Vista
Dev IDE: VisualBasic 2005 Express
Telerik Components: newest build available on the site

any suggestions would be appreciated and if I'm doing something silly just give my head a shake :)

Steven Hodson
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Sorry couldn't resisit the title but I have run across a reproducable bug (?) involving the RibbonBar.

Senerio:

OS: Vista Ultimate
IDE: Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition

Add an Inherited ShapedForm
Add a Windows.Form Panel set to anchor on all four sides of the form
Add a RibbonBar

Create a new chunk
Add a RadRibbonBarButtonGroup to the chunk
Add a RadButtonElement to the above group
Add a RadDropDownButtonElement to the above group

Now select the ButtonElement and change its AutoSizeMode to FitToAvailableSize

Now change the AutoSizeMode to Auto.

At this point the IDE will become Non Responsive and eventually close down.

I have been able to reproduce this result numerous times just to confirm that it can be reproduced.

Steven Hodson
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Hello,

I formatted my PC and reinstall Telerik, But when i opened my old projects which use these components, lost their theme and change to ApplicationDefault theme in design time and when i try to change them, i see there is no themes in the list until i create another project...