transparent textboxes - quick question

[melanieab]

Hi,
I found this online:
"If the SupportsTranspa rentBackColor bit is set to true, and the BackColor
is set to a color whose alpha component is less than 255, OnPaintBackgrou nd
will simulate transparency by asking its parent control to paint the
background."

What I've tried to do is this:
On the main form declared private TbJob tbJob (this is the textbox), as well
as set tbJob.Parent = pbEBS; (the picturebox I want as the background). Then
there's:
public class TbJob:TextBox
{
protected override void OnPaintBackgrou nd(PaintEventAr gs e)
{
this.SetStyle(C ontrolStyles.Al lPaintingInWmPa int,true);
this.SetStyle(C ontrolStyles.Do ubleBuffer,true );
this.SetStyle(C ontrolStyles.Us erPaint,true);
this.SetStyle(C ontrolStyles.Su pportsTranspare ntBackColor,tru e);
this.BackColor = Color.FromArgb( 0,255,0,0);
}
}

I've set all the things that the online help says to set, and I can't figure
out what I'm missing.

Thanks very much for any help!
Melanie

[J.Marsch]

Re: transparent textboxes - quick question

Melanie:

I'm afraid that I have bad news for you. The textbox control that you get
with the .Net runtime does not support transparency -- even if you alter the
create params to configure transparency. You're going to have find a
third-party control that does.


"melanieab" <melanieab@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
news:886118DA-FA4A-4871-8E8A-7E21B69C1D9E@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
> I found this online:
> "If the SupportsTranspa rentBackColor bit is set to true, and the BackColor
> is set to a color whose alpha component is less than 255,
> OnPaintBackgrou nd
> will simulate transparency by asking its parent control to paint the
> background."
>
> What I've tried to do is this:
> On the main form declared private TbJob tbJob (this is the textbox), as
> well
> as set tbJob.Parent = pbEBS; (the picturebox I want as the background).
> Then
> there's:
> public class TbJob:TextBox
> {
> protected override void OnPaintBackgrou nd(PaintEventAr gs e)
> {
> this.SetStyle(C ontrolStyles.Al lPaintingInWmPa int,true);
> this.SetStyle(C ontrolStyles.Do ubleBuffer,true );
> this.SetStyle(C ontrolStyles.Us erPaint,true);
> this.SetStyle(C ontrolStyles.Su pportsTranspare ntBackColor,tru e);
> this.BackColor = Color.FromArgb( 0,255,0,0);
> }
> }
>
> I've set all the things that the online help says to set, and I can't
> figure
> out what I'm missing.
>
> Thanks very much for any help!
> Melanie[/color]