Questions on UI for WinForms Forum

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Dock Tabbing

Hello,
Two questions:

1) How do you merge in code two dock panels so they are tabbed together?

2) Is it possible to assign a graphic to the Dock Tabs ? ( next service pack?)

Thanks!!

Bruce Van Buren

Hello,
Two questions:

Dock

answered on 28 Nov 2006

2 answers

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Validation of a form

Hi. I'm starting to build a Windows forms app using telerik components and wondered how you can validate a form. I've noticed the "causesValidation" property but wasn't sure if it's similar to the way ASP.NET pages are validated, using the Page.IsValid() function call. I didn't see any validation controls and wondered what the best-practices are for validation of a Win form.

By the way, I'm extremely impressed by the r.a.d. controls for WinForms. They're powerful, functional, and very aesthetically pleasing. Thank you :)

Form

answered on 27 Nov 2006

1 answer

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ComboBox with images?

Hi,
I want to use combobox with images only in its items. Can I do this with your combobox control? Also I want to set gradient color which changes when the user hovers the item. Can I use images with transparency and some set some background color of the items?
Thanks.

Fedor

ComboBox and ListBox (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 23 Nov 2006

1 answer

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Use different disabled items

When I set the Enabled property of the Menu Items to "false" they become gray. I would like to set some different colors and font of the disabled items. How can I customize this state of the items?

Greetings,
Anthony

Menu

answered on 23 Nov 2006

1 answer

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Trouble using winform controls

Hi!

I have just tried putting a couple of check boxes into a windows program and they seem to work just fine. That is until I try to put them into production. I moved the application over to our production server and then it no longer works. I am wondering if there is something else that I need to deploy along with the application similar to how the web applications have to have the radcontrols folder?

Thanks for any help you can give me,

Tony Leach

General Discussions

answered on 21 Nov 2006

3 answers

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Dockwindow & Visual Styles

Hello,

I am using themes with the shell form and the ribbon control and they seem to be working fine. But when I add the docking manager and dock panels, I notice that they have no theme or style properties. If I set them transparent, the assume the form colors but when they float they assume the standard windows colors. Is there a way around this?

Thanks!!

Dock

answered on 21 Nov 2006

1 answer

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Problem with Collapsing Window

Hello,

I am working with the current build of the Windows Controls and running into a small issue with the dock control that I am hoping I can get some help with.

When I unpin one of the tool windows and pin it back it comes back slightly smaller each time.
Before Screen Shot
After Screen Shot

Currently I have the following properties that I was hoping would correct this problem but they do not seem to help:
PreferredDockSize: 330, 610
AutoSize: True *
AutoSizeMode: GrowOnly *

*Tried with this both on and off.

I also looked for an event that fired when the tool window was pinned or unpinned couldnt find one (any help here) where maybe I could attempt to set the size with code.

Thanks in advance.

Update:
I noticed it actually does the same thing at design time. If you set the DockState: AutoHide then set it back to DockState: Docked it causes it to get smaller, since you cannot set the Size property with the Property Window you then have to go back into the advanced layout manager and try and eyeball it back to the previous size.

Dock

answered on 20 Nov 2006

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Dockink Help

The new architecture of the dock control is completely different from the CTP, but the documentation is very poor, not what I am used to from you guys.
How do you use the UserDockControl, and how is the docking manager supposed to work at design time.

Dock

answered on 17 Nov 2006

1 answer

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Walk-Through Suggestion

The new windows controls look to have great promise but I am struggling to find information on how they are supposed to work.

What would really be good, for all of your controls, is a movie (walk-through) that shows a developer using each control. From design to configuration and integration in a simple application. Sometimes it tough to get started, for example with the Dock functionality where do you start? There are several controls that appear to be involved with the Dock functionality.

After some trial and error and in the product description it looks like you start with a Docking Manager, but that is not intuitive and the help not being complete (I hope) it makes developers getting used to the control waste several hours trying to figure it out.

I like the examples, but there is no way to see how you got there, so including a movie that shows "HOW" the examples were created would be extraordinary.

Thanks for the windows controls, nice to finally get controls that make an application look current and like I said earlier they look very promising!

General Discussions

answered on 17 Nov 2006

2 answers

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RibbonbarbuttonGroup

I am attempting to add a radribbonbarbuttongroup to my ribbonbar and I am not seeing it listed in the toolbox. I have created a toolbox tab and dragged the Telerik.WinControls.UI.dll to it. I am able to see the RadRibbonBar in the toolbox but no buttongroup. I have also verified that I am able to see the buttongroup in code. I could manually add the element via code but, that would defeat the purpose of having the toolbox and a visual IDE. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

- Adam

RibbonBar

answered on 16 Nov 2006