How to place text over a picturebox

[Phil Diwell]

Hi all.

I am trying to place text over a picturebox. I thought I coul do this by
making the textbox.backcolor property = color.transparent.

However this doesn't work (textbox doesn't support transparent backcolor)
and so I am wondering if anyone knows how I can do this.

I need to be able to put multiple lines of text over the picturebox, so
using labels won't do it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Phil

[Jon Davis]

I don't know about textbox but label does support transparent background and
it also supports multiline text.

Jon
"Phil Diwell" <Ph*********@invalid.btinternet.com> wrote in message
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Hi all.

I am trying to place text over a picturebox. I thought I coul do this by
making the textbox.backcolor property = color.transparent.

However this doesn't work (textbox doesn't support transparent backcolor)
and so I am wondering if anyone knows how I can do this.

I need to be able to put multiple lines of text over the picturebox, so
using labels won't do it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Phil

[Phil]

Hi, thanks for replying,

I just had a look and cannot find a multiline property for label, are you
sure there is one?
Maybe I'm missing something really obvious, but...

Phil

"Jon Davis" <jo*@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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I don't know about textbox but label does support transparent background and it also supports multiline text.

Jon
"Phil Diwell" <Ph*********@invalid.btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:Ob**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Hi all.

I am trying to place text over a picturebox. I thought I coul do this by
making the textbox.backcolor property = color.transparent.

However this doesn't work (textbox doesn't support transparent backcolor) and so I am wondering if anyone knows how I can do this.

I need to be able to put multiple lines of text over the picturebox, so
using labels won't do it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Phil

[Jon Davis]

It's multiline by default. The property editor doesn't support multiline
text, but if you pass a multiline string (containing "\r\n" per line break)
programmatically, it renders correctly.

Jon
"Phil" <no*****@invalid.btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi, thanks for replying,

I just had a look and cannot find a multiline property for label, are you
sure there is one?
Maybe I'm missing something really obvious, but...

Phil

"Jon Davis" <jo*@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
news:ed**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

I don't know about textbox but label does support transparent background

and

it also supports multiline text.

Jon
"Phil Diwell" <Ph*********@invalid.btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:Ob**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Hi all.

I am trying to place text over a picturebox. I thought I coul do this by making the textbox.backcolor property = color.transparent.

However this doesn't work (textbox doesn't support transparent backcolor) and so I am wondering if anyone knows how I can do this.

I need to be able to put multiple lines of text over the picturebox, so using labels won't do it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Phil

[Phil]

Ah !!

Just tried it - you're right. I didn't know that (obviously)

I guess that solve my problem - thanks.

Phil

"Jon Davis" <jo*@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
news:eU**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

It's multiline by default. The property editor doesn't support multiline
text, but if you pass a multiline string (containing "\r\n" per line break) programmatically, it renders correctly.

Jon
"Phil" <no*****@invalid.btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi, thanks for replying,

I just had a look and cannot find a multiline property for label, are you

sure there is one?
Maybe I'm missing something really obvious, but...

Phil

"Jon Davis" <jo*@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
news:ed**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

I don't know about textbox but label does support transparent

background and

it also supports multiline text.

Jon
"Phil Diwell" <Ph*********@invalid.btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:Ob**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi all.
>
> I am trying to place text over a picturebox. I thought I coul do

this by > making the textbox.backcolor property = color.transparent.
>
> However this doesn't work (textbox doesn't support transparent

backcolor)

> and so I am wondering if anyone knows how I can do this.
>
> I need to be able to put multiple lines of text over the picturebox, so > using labels won't do it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Phil
>
>