[VB .Net] Label Transparency over Pic

[bangbang023 Veteran]

I am working on my on going project and have come across a problem. I wan tto have a picture box filling the back ground with 2 labels over it. However, when I set the label background color to Web/Transparent, the background still comes out grey when I run the program and this is a problem. How do I make it so that the label is truely transparent and you see the contents of the picture box behind it?

[azcodemonkey]

I've almost got it... i'll post the code on so you can check it out when I'm done.

[no name]

ok

[azcodemonkey]

Got it to work.

Transparent Label in VB with a custom panel

Ok, I think the only drawback is that I wrote this with VS.NET 2003. The project file may not work, but all the source should work in a VS.NET 2002 version. Also, you'll need to change the location of the image to a valid path on your machine. Works well, even with PNGs with alpha transparency. :D

I'm going to bed, so I'll field any questions later today.

[no name]

no u cannot open it in vs .net 2002

[azcodemonkey]

VB Transparent Label 2002

I converted it to 2002.

[no name]

Nice one! :) I like it! :)

[supernova_00]

screenshot??

[azcodemonkey]

It's more an example than an app, so there isn't really anything to see.

[no name]

Well, tis not a beautiful skin or theme file. Not neccesary to post screen shot! lol :p

The pretty and cool thing is the code not the screen shot! ;)

Nice job weenur

[azcodemonkey]

Thanks. The most mind bending part was figuring out how to get the panel to draw without flicker. I tried for a while to use the old GDI method of double buffering, that is writing the resized bitmap to a memory bitmap then blitting on to the screen, but it just wasn't working well. Then it occurred to me that I could make a user control that inherited from Panel and use the SetStyle method to set it to double buffer on its own. I love .NET! What used to take more than a few lines of code has been reduced dramatically.

[no name]

  weenur said:

Thanks. The most mind bending part was figuring out how to get the panel to draw without flicker. I tried for a while to use the old GDI method of double buffering, that is writing the resized bitmap to a memory bitmap then blitting on to the screen, but it just wasn't working well. Then it occurred to me that I could make a user control that inherited from Panel and use the SetStyle method to set it to double buffer on its own. I love .NET! What used to take more than a few lines of code has been reduced dramatically.

hard for a 16 to think of that lol. only have about 1.5 month experioence on this