Hey, I'm going to have scrolling text on top of a textured image in my program, so the area where the text is needs to be transparent so you can see through to image. Here's the problem:
Using the worthless (for scrolling anyway) label control, I get tons of flickering. Someone suggested I use a picture box, but here's the problem with that: If I put the same image as the background image in the picture box, then the patterns don't match up at all (remember, it's a textured image!). And, I didn't see anywhere to set a picturebox background to transparent. Sooo, my question is: What kind of control do I need to use to accomplish this? Is there an activeX control I can d/l to do this? I'd like to stay away from directx as someone before mentioned that would be overkill for my purposes. Any help is appreciated.