[RESOLVED] Displaying text on a picturebox

[krtxmrtz]

I need a control for displaying text (coordinate values) as I move the mouse over a picturebox. I had thought of a label but I want to have more than one line. A multiline textbox won't work because it stays in the background underneath the picturebox so it's not visible. Any ideas?

[krtxmrtz]

...and labels are nice because their backstyle can be set to transparent, otherwise maybe I'd use a picturebox.

[jsmcm]

Not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve, but if you want to use a lable, then set its autosize property to true, the use VBCrLF for multi-line use, eg,

Lable1.caption = "This is on line one" & vbcrlf & "This is on line two".

Hope this is what you are wanting.

John

[brucevde]

I had thought of a label but I want to have more than one line.

Labels can have multiple lines.

Private Sub Form_Load()
    With Label1
        .AutoSize=True
        .BackStyle = vbTransparent
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub Form_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    Label1.Caption = "X: " & X & vbNewLine & "Y: " & Y
End Sub

[krtxmrtz]

Thank you jsmcm and brucevde. I thought I'd use vbcrlf for new lines but I must have done something strange for when I tried it didn't work (and I was sober) so I had already given up the idea.