Label Transparent VB.NET

[oXiDe]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a label control transparent over a Panel control.

However by setting the background colour of the label to Transparent, it actually sees right through to the form itself, not the panel as intended.

As an example we use a panel with a background as white, we make the label transparent, however it gets the form’s colour as blue.

However, we are using a custom panel control and need the label to be transparent over the panel and not see the forms background.

Is this possible?

Thank you.

[SJWhiteley]

Is your button IN the panel or OVER the panel? A label in the panel, when the background is set to transparent, will actually have a background color of the hosting container (or whatever the 'background' is).

Basically, transparency isn't what you think it is. When you set the background color to transparent, whatever is drawn on the background of the parent container is drawn into the background of the label.

I don't think there is an easy way of doing what you want, and most methods are a hack. Simply, if you want unaliased text, then you can do it easier (regions), but aliased drawing/text requires some bitmaps and painting. Perhaps WPF (windows presentation foundation) has some methods that can do this?

[keystone_paul]

Just to add to what SJWhitely says - this is totally different to the behaviour in VB6 which I guess is what you are alluding to in your title.