Duplicate label + changing color

[zivon]

I've got two new problams : \

firts, I'm trying to change the background color of a label... and for some reasone it doesn't work.
I tried more then one thing:

d1.BackColor = vbRed
d1.BackColor = RGB(20, 20, 20)
d1.BackColor = "65408"

can anyone thing of a reasone why wont one of those work ?

my second question is how to duplicate a label ? (by code)

thanks in advance, Idan

[JKing]

Hi!

Have a look at your label's property sheet. There should be a property by the name of BackStyle if this property is set to "Transparent" you will need to change it to normal to be able to see the effects of BackColor.

[zivon]

Thanks.. I feel so stupid :)

[missinglinq]

And Transparent is the default setting for labels. I don't really think there's a way to duplicate a control programatically. Exactly what are you trying to accomplish?

Welcome to TheScripts!

Linq ;0)>

[JKing]

Don't feel stupid. Sometimes the small mistakes are the hardest to solve. Though I do have a suggestion for you in the future. If a method or property isn't drawing an error but still isn't functioning as you think it should take a look at the help file. There maybe something quirky that needs to be done before the property or method will function as it should. The help files usually explain these small details in the remarks section. After all it's almost impossible to remember every possible combination of settings and properties for every control.

[zivon]

I'll try to explain what I'm trying to do:
its for a B&B place...
basicly, I'm doing a table, on the top there are the dates
and on the right there are the rooms names.
where the room is taken I put the name of the person whos ordered it.

I want to make it dynamic, so I can add rooms. thats why I want to duplicate the labels.. to make it for one room and the duplicats for the other rooms.

I beileve its possible... I think I saw something like this once.. but I can't find it :\