Text over progressbar

[Rene Sørensen]

Hi

Is there a way to show text in/over a progressbar (like using a label
with transparent background? Which hasn't worked for me, BTW)???

Rene

[John Davison]

Re: Text over progressbar

Rene Sørensen wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> Is there a way to show text in/over a progressbar (like using a label
> with transparent background? Which hasn't worked for me, BTW)???
>
> Rene
>[/color]

override the OnPaint method, call the base, then do your own painting

John

[Rene Sørensen]

Re: Text over progressbar

Hi john

I did the OnPaint, (se beneath), just a small test,
but the
< call the base, then do your own painting >
you suggest, I don't exactly know what you mean about this.

This code works, but not the way I hoped, the string is drawn behind
my Progress bar control, so is there another way I can do this, or is
Graphics the wrong one to use?

private void OnPaint(object
sender,System.W indows.Forms.Pa intEventArgse)
{
Graphics G = e.Graphics;
G.DrawString( "Hello Mum!", new Font( "Verdana", 20 ),
new SolidBrush( Color.Tomato ),
650,
360 );

}

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:05:54 -0400, John Davison
<nospamplease@y ahoo.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Rene Sørensen wrote:[color=green]
>> Hi
>>
>> Is there a way to show text in/over a progressbar (like using a label
>> with transparent background? Which hasn't worked for me, BTW)???
>>
>> Rene
>>[/color]
>
>override the OnPaint method, call the base, then do your own painting
>
>John[/color]

[John Davison]

Re: Text over progressbar

Rene Sørensen wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi john
>
> I did the OnPaint, (se beneath), just a small test,
> but the
> < call the base, then do your own painting >
> you suggest, I don't exactly know what you mean about this.
>
> This code works, but not the way I hoped, the string is drawn behind
> my Progress bar control, so is there another way I can do this, or is
> Graphics the wrong one to use?
>
> private void OnPaint(object
> sender,System.W indows.Forms.Pa intEventArgse)
> {
> Graphics G = e.Graphics;
> G.DrawString( "Hello Mum!", new Font( "Verdana", 20 ),
> new SolidBrush( Color.Tomato ),
> 650,
> 360 );
>
> }[/color]

I'm sorry, I forgot ProgressBar is a sealed class. After quickly
studying the class, I could not find a way to do what you want to do.
You *could* obtain the Graphics object for the progress bar, and draw on
top of that, but you would not know when the control repaints itself,
because ProgressBar does not have a Paint event.

I think your best bet would be to create your own ProgressBar control
using the drawing primitives. I don't think that would be very difficult.

John Davison
Compass Engineering Group