Controls like textbox with background image?

[Maatooh]

Hello, I spent several hours searching the forum for some way to make a textbox transparent so that you could see what is behind it, for example a picturebox with an image.

And at most I found some projects that I can transparently see the background outside of the process, but not inside it.

Even if it is being able to draw in the background of a textbox, it would be really useful to simulate transparency.

For example:


I know that this topic is very old, and there are examples with broken links or they simply did not work as expected .

Thank you so much!

[BenJones]

do you mean sothing like this
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB...x/article.html

[SamOscarBrown]

I like that Ben!!

I did something SIMILAR (but not the same) with only a few lines of code...it is not exactly what OP asked for, but they might like it. It looks like this after someone types into the textbox:



But while typing in the text box, it changes like this until you hit enter:



If that's okay, here is the code:

Option Explicit


Private Sub Label1_Click()
        Text1.Left = Label1.Left
        Text1.Top = Label1.Top
        Text1.ZOrder (0)
        Text1.Visible = True
        Text1.SetFocus
        Label1.Visible = False
End Sub


Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
        If KeyAscii = 13 Then
                Label1.Caption = Text1.Text
                Text1.Visible = False
                Label1.Visible = True
        End If
End Sub

The textbox and label (labelbackGround property set to transparent) are the same size.

[Maatooh]

Thank you very much guys, both are very good solutions, I will reconsider the use of the dynamics between the label and the textbox.

Ben's solution is the closest to what I was looking for, although when testing the test project, using the debugger generates some unfortunate process crashes.