Styling a form with Appstylist 2011

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Erik Peschier posted over 12 years ago

Since the 2011 version it is possible to also style the form with the appstyler. I just don't seem to be able to find any proper documentation on how to change certain properties. Does anybody know how to:

Change the border width?
Window border color
Caption alignment?
What part exactly creates a rounded or a rectangular form (it seems that setting the ViewStyle in the "All Components" to "Standard" does makes it rectangular?)

Or even better: some documentation on how to do this? (If I search for example for UltraFormCaptionArea I don't really find anything useful that tells me what can be styles with this)

Would be great if someone could point me in the right direction.

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Offline Jose Acevedo posted over 12 years ago
Hello,

I will be happy to assist you with your questions.

Below you will find the answers to your questions in order:

The AppStylist doesn't have the ability to change the border width of a form.

To change the border color by utilizing the UltraFormBorder and UltraFormCaptionArea roles off of the Base UI Role. Simply change the backgroud color property to make this change.

Within the UltraFormCaptionArea role previously mentioned, you have the ability to align the text using the font property.

Setting the ViewStyle in the "All Components" to "standard" is the only way to allow form to create square instead of rounded corners.

To help illustrate my explanation, I have attached two images into this forum.

Please let me know if you have further questions regarding this matter.
Border colors.zip
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Erik Peschier posted over 12 years ago in reply to Jose Acevedo
Hi Jose,

Ok, so the border is defined in the Base UI Role and basically there are 2 borders. 1 is the inner border (the thick one) that can be colored by setting the background color and the outer one (1 pixel width) that can be ste by the border color.
The UltraFormBorder only will work when you have selected the viewstyle to be "Standard"
Do I understand this correct?

My question about any useful documentation you did not answer so I guess there is none?

Thanks so far for the help.

- Erik
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Offline Jose Acevedo posted over 12 years ago in reply to Erik Peschier

Hello,

You are correct in your description.

Also, all of our useful documentation is located in the following link:
http://help.infragistics.com/NetAdvantage/WinForms/2011.2/CLR2.0/?page=Win_Application_Styling_Framework_ASF.html

If you find that the documentation for the Appstylist doesn't provide answers to your questions, you always have the option to ask a Developer Support Engineer your questions.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this matter.
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ProVentus AS posted over 12 years ago in reply to Jose Acevedo

Our forms are using UltraToolbarManager. When I use AppStylistRunTime to alter UltraFormCaptionArea or UltraFormBorder, nothing happens, no color changes get applied.

Also, I tryed to add UltraFormsManager to my form, but I got a message saying that it cannot be added\used with UltraToolbarManager.

Does this mean that if a form has a UltraToolbarsManager, the form border style\color cannot be changed? Why is this?

If this is the case, it's a big minus from me to Infragistics....
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Dave Frischknecht posted over 10 years ago in reply to Abdus Salam

Hello Abdus,

Thank you for contacting Infragistics.

Which link are you referring to?
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Abdus Salam posted over 10 years ago in reply to ProVentus AS

please give me the link
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ProVentus AS posted over 12 years ago in reply to Mike Saltzman

Ah! I've been searching for this for more than a year now :)

Thank you! This worked :)
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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 12 years ago in reply to ProVentus AS

Hi,

There is no way to do this in code, only via AppStylist.

To change the border color, use the ToolbarFormBorder UI Role.
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ProVentus AS posted over 12 years ago in reply to Mike Saltzman

Our forms that use UltraToolbarManager have allready those conditions.

IsGlassSupporter is set to False, and FormDisplayStyle is RoundedSizeable. (these are our standard settings on forms).

Still, I cannot find where to alter the form border in the designer og in properties of the toolbar.

Also, durring runtime, using AppStylistRuntime control, after changeing the UltraFormCaptionArea or UltraFormBorder, nothing happens... (and btw, it indicates that these properties are ONLY used by UltraFormManager)

When changing the "RibbonCaptionArea" background color, it worked. But only the caption area, NOT the border. See picture below .

I have also added a test solution so that you can see it for yourself. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33168380/FormBorders.zip
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