Transparent Controls over a Picture Box

Dave · #1 01-19-2003, 05:23 PM

I have a picture box on my form (with an image in) and i want to put a label on top of it, but with the background of the label being transparent. It has to be a label control becuase it needs to be moved around at run-time in certain bits of code... any ideas?!?!?!

**Robby** · #2 01-19-2003, 10:29 PM

You can just place an image in the label itself.

**divil** · #3 01-20-2003, 04:15 AM

http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinFor...c41c.asp#q701q

UCM · #4 01-20-2003, 08:51 AM

Hope this helps, I'm at work right now and away from my VB, please excuse any uncertainties but try this out...

It sounds like you want to put text on a background image kind of thing, like the text under the icons on your windows desktop...

If that's the case then you should ( i believe ) be able to do this with the designer...

In the designer, draw the label on top of the picture inside your picturebox. Use the designer's property tool-window on this label and click on the BackColor property.

This should open a lil window ontop of the backcolor property with 3 tabs, click on the 'Web' tab and scroll all the way up ( or down ) and you should see a transparent property...

Ither that or there might be a backstyle or backgound property to set to transparent.....

Dave · #5 01-20-2003, 12:42 PM

Thanks 4 the link divil, setting the label's parent to the picture box worked fine.