Re: How to transparent TextBox in C#?

[Nick]

Is it not possible to set the background color of the Textbox to
transparent? I have seen this before, but I don't work in WinForms all that
much so I can't give you any exact code. But select the Textbox in VS.Net
and look on the side under the colors and there should be a color marked
transparent.

 

[Marco Martin]

Diwakar,
I've had to do this but with a panel. I just created a class that inherited
Panel, and override onPaintBackground() method.

private class TransparentPanel : Panel

{

public TransparentPanel()

{

}

//This method makes sure that the background is what is directly behind the
control

//and not what is behind the form...

override protected CreateParams CreateParams

{

get

{

CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;

cp.ExStyle |= 0x20;

return cp;

}

}

override protected void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e)

{

// do nothing

}

}



hope this helps



regards,

Marco

 

[Nick]

Can you type in the Panel? Because I thought that was the goal Ekey had?