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Various themes and skins supported in various controls

Unless I've missed something, it appears that not all themes are supported by all controls (not even the basic controls like edit).

I've not been able to find any concise documentation on creating my own themes (if this is even possible)

It seems odd that a theme like Office2016 is only available on a handful of controls.  Partial implementation renders a theme almost pointless unless you are happy to have mixed themes in your application.

All I can assume is that I'm missing an important piece in this process?

Any help or pointers would be useful

3 Replies
PM Piruthiviraj Malaimelraj Syncfusion Team November 8, 2017 01:36 PM UTC

Hi Steven, 

Thanks for your interest in Syncfusion products. 

We have analyzed your requirements and some of the Syncfusion WindowsForms controls does not have support for Office2016 theme support and for custom theme but we have logged feature reports for those controls which does not have support for Office2016 theme. Here we have provided the solution for creating the own custom theme for some WindowsForms controls. Please find the below table, 

Control 
Document link 
GridControl, GridGroupingControl 
ScrollerFrames 
Digital Gauge 
Radial Gauge 
LinearGauge 

Moreover, Syncfusion WindowsForms controls does not have support for ThemeStudio support to customize the own appearance for all controls but it can be achieved by customizing the control renderers as like above mentioned controls.  
Please let us know the controls which you have used in your projects. It would be better to forward your scenario to concern teams and to provide the better solutions at the earliest. 

Regards, 
Piruthiviraj 




SS Steven Sartain November 9, 2017 01:38 PM UTC

Thanks for the feedback, however I'm not convinced that the response actually answered my question, however it was certainly useful.

It appears that you've explained how I can customise a control that is already set to be customised?

Let's take a simple example of a TextBoxExt...a fairly common user interface control.  This control currently supports 3 styles of Office 2007, 2010 and Metro.  It also supports default (whatever that means).  If I want to adjust one of those styles to either use a customised version of one of these styles or create my own, how would I go about this?

It seems that this may not be possible, which leads me to my initial statement of why have themes been introduced into controls where the basic edit controls do not appear to support them.  This does make adoption of a theme pointless unless it's metro or one of the two office ones?

I'm still thinking I'm missing something?


PM Piruthiviraj Malaimelraj Syncfusion Team November 10, 2017 01:18 PM UTC

Hi Steven, 

Thanks for your update. 

We have created the separate incident under your Syncfusion account for better followup for your scenarios. So, we request you to followup with that incident. 
  
Regards, 
Piruthiviraj 


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