transparent label

[SomeError]

Helllllo,
i thought vb.net would be fun like vb6,, but i'm stuck,, i don't know how to make a label with a transparent background,,ok ok i'v tried setting the bkackcolor property to Transparent.. But still, i cant see thru the label...
How do i do that?

thanx

[abdul]

You want to make the label transparent and still would be able to see through it? Two different things. When you set the backcolor to transparent, can't you see through it?

[MrPolite]

No, I've tried that and it doesnt work. I think it no longer supports such a thing

[SomeError]

No Way man,,,, there must be some way to do it.....any body can help????

[wolfofthenorth]

Seems hard to believe that there is not a property for this, but I don't see it.

If you want to change your labels background color to match the containers background color, you could put code to do this in the containers BackColorChanged event.

If you just want text that you can see behind, you could draw it with GDI+.

Either one of those options are easy to do. I hope one of them will work for you.

[Tygur]

Straight out of the Help that comes with Visual Studio .NET:

In Visual Basic 6.0, the BackStyle property of the Label control determined whether the label had a transparent background. Setting the BackStyle property to 0 – Transparent allowed any background image or other controls to show through the label.

In Visual Basic .NET, the BackStyle property no longer exists, and the transparency behavior is slightly different. To emulate the transparent behavior in Visual Basic .NET, set the BackColor property to System.Drawing.Color.Transparent. This will allow the background image to show through, but it will not be transparent in regard to other controls.

[MrPolite]

so basically it's transparent but it's not transparent

I dont get it

[abdul]

Originally posted by Tygur
Straight out of the Help that comes with Visual Studio .NET:

That's exactly I was talking about. I assumed that he was setting to colour to transparent not the backstyle to transparent because, as MSDN says, it doesn't exist anymore.

[abdul]

Originally posted by MrPolite
so basically it's transparent but it's not transparent

I dont get it

Actually you can change it to opaque or transparent. In previous versions, you could choose your backcolour and then it would be drawn only if the backstyle was opaque. But in new one, you change to opaque or transparent using only the backcolour property. If you click on "Web Colors" or some tab like that in your backcolour property, you'll find the transparent "colour".

[MrPolite]

Either I'm acting really dumb or my eyes cant see right
I have a label over a picturebox. I changed the BGcolor of the lable to Transparent, but still when I run it, the label is covering the pictureBox and it's not trasparent

what am I doing wrong

[abdul]

I can't try it myself because I haven't installed VB .NET yet but I am sure it supports transparent colour if it doesn't give you any error when you try to set the backcolor to transparent.

[BryanJ]

I tried it and it works great.

Set the Background color to Transparent - (found under the Web colors.)

I guess the problem lies with the picturebox.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by BryanJ
I tried it and it works great.

Set the Background color to Transparent - (found under the Web colors.)

I guess the problem lies with the picturebox.

well yeah I think you're right, it's picturebox's problemmo
So basically it aint working with pic boxes? doesnt make that much senssssse

[Tygur]

Originally posted by MrPolite
Either I'm acting really dumb or my eyes cant see right
I have a label over a picturebox. I changed the BGcolor of the lable to Transparent, but still when I run it, the label is covering the pictureBox and it's not trasparent

what am I doing wrong

I don't think you people read my previous quote right. Have another look. Check out the bolded part, in particular:

In Visual Basic .NET, the BackStyle property no longer exists, and the transparency behavior is slightly different. To emulate the transparent behavior in Visual Basic .NET, set the BackColor property to System.Drawing.Color.Transparent. This will allow the background image to show through, but it will not be transparent in regard to other controls.

[wolfofthenorth]

If you just want simple text, I would draw it on manually with GDI+.

[MrPolite]

See!!! I was right, my eyes cant see right
tnx Tygur, I really didnt notice that part

Originally posted by wolfofthenorth
If you just want simple text, I would draw it on manually with GDI+.

Umm, is there a way to actually write text ON a control? eeh, I think that's useless anyways

[wolfofthenorth]

Yea, you can write text on a control. If this is not what you are looking for, sorry. It was just a suggestion, I was only trying to help.