WPF styles

[Rayne]

I'm a newbie with WPF and I copied some code into my Resource Dictionary so that all standard TextBoxes and Buttons would get the radcontrols styles. I found it in another thread.

<Style TargetType="Button" 

         BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Windows7Theme, ElementType=Button}}" />

  <Style TargetType="ListBox" 

         BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Windows7Theme, ElementType=ListBox}}" />
<Style TargetType="TextBox" 

         BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Windows7Theme, ElementType=TextBox}}" />
<Style TargetType="CheckBox" 

         BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Windows7Theme, ElementType=CheckBox}}" />


Now, I found that I can customize the error template using the following code.

<Style TargetType="Control" x:Key="ValidationErrorTemplate">
    <Style.Triggers>
      <Trigger Property="Validation.HasError" Value="True">
        <Setter Property="ToolTip"
                Value="{Binding RelativeSource={x:Static RelativeSource.Self},
                Path=(Validation.Errors)[0].ErrorContent}" />
      </Trigger>
    </Style.Triggers>
  </Style>

<Style TargetType="TextBox" BasedOn={StaticResource ValidationErrorTemplate}" />

How do I combine the two TextBox styles so that I can keep the Error Template at a common level (Control), and use it for all controls. Can I change the Error template style to be based on the Telerik ThemeResourceKey for Control? then base all other controls on it instead?

[Vanya Pavlova]

Hello Rayne,


I have spent some time to investigate your request and I am curious to heard why do you actually need to do that? Each RadControl as part of the Telerik's suite follows its own logic that resides in its template, including its validation logic too. It could be great effort to customize validation tooltip's appearance of each control to achieve this result - common validation look and feel for all controls as part of your application.
  

<Style TargetType="TextBox" BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Windows7Theme, ElementType=TextBox}}">
  <Style.Triggers>
      <Trigger Property="Validation.HasError" Value="True">
        <Setter Property="ToolTip"
                Value="{Binding RelativeSource={x:Static RelativeSource.Self},
                Path=(Validation.Errors)[0].ErrorContent}" />
      </Trigger>
    </Style.Triggers>
</Style>

You may set the markup above within the style in this way.

<Style TargetType="TextBox" BasedOn="{StaticResource {telerik:ThemeResourceKey ThemeType=telerik:Windows7Theme, ElementType=TextBox}}"> .....</>

Regards,
Vanya Pavlova
the Telerik team