nesting picture boxes and their parent function

[Suraj S]

I have inserted a picture box inside which there is another smaller picture box. I have made the back color of the smaller picturebox to transparent, for this to work properly i have run the following code in form1_load.
"SmallerPictureBox.Parent = BiggerPictureBox"

And it works fine.
But now i need to insert a small label inside the SmallerPictureBox and make the back color of the label also transparent. to do that i used this code:
"label.Parent = SmallerPictureBox"

But now this is not working and the label is not being seen at all.
And i have put these 2 lines of code in this same order also.
Wat shud i do so that the label is seen on the SmallerPictureBox and also be transparent??
Please Help.

[boops boops]

Hi Suraj,

The Location, Left, Top etc. properties of a control are always relative to the control's Parent. So if you can't see the Label at all, you are probably not resetting the Left and Top of the label correctly.

Here's a little sub I use for this purpose. It uses PointToScreen+PointToClient to make it completely accurate (allow for any border on the new parent control):

	Private Sub Reparent(child As Control, newParent As Control)
		Dim childLocation As Point = child.Parent.PointToScreen(child.Location)
		child.Parent = newParent
		childLocation = newParent.PointToClient(childLocation)
		child.Left = childLocation.X
		child.Top = childLocation.Y
	End Sub

	'example of use:
	Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
		Reparent(PictureBox2, PictureBox1)
		Reparent(Label1, PictureBox2)
	End Sub

BB

[Suraj S]

Thank You very much Boops Boops.