Transparent label Ctrl [modified]

[Imtiaz Murtaza]

Dear friends, I placed an image on the form and on one corner of that image, i placed a label control. I am displaying current date on the label control. Problem is that the background color of the label is looking very ugly as it hides some portion of the image. I want to make the label control transpaent so that only text of the label remains visible and the image behind it not gets hidden. How can i do so ? Imtiaz

[Martin 0]

Hello, At System.Windows.Forms.Label BackgroundColor Property, its possible to set transparent I think. All the best, Martin

[Martin 0]

Oops, Sorry, does not work on PictureBox. Martin

[Martin 0]

Hello Again, You could use a Panel with his Background Image Property, and set the Label BackgroundColor to Transparent. I tried it. All the best, Martin

[Imtiaz Murtaza]

If i use panel, then how do i display text on the panel. There is no 'Text' property associated with the panel ? Imtiaz

[engsrini]

Use label or Use Group box instead

[Martin 0]

No, but what I meant, that you place your label over the panel. In this case, the transparence of the Label will work! All the best, Martin

[Vivek Sivasamy]

Set the opacity property of the lable to 0 .This will make the label transperent and will give u the required effect

[Imtiaz Murtaza]

Opcity property is related to Form and not controls. Plz correct me if i am worng. Imtiaz

[mav northwind]

Unfortunately, there's no built-in way to do this. You'll have to build your own control to get real transparency. One way to do this can be found here[^] or here[^] Regards, mav -- Black holes are the places where god divided by 0... -- modified at 14:16 Wednesday 19th July, 2006