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I would like to draw some text which will be in front of any other controls,
but without obscuring them completely. If I use DrawString in the form's
Paint handler the text is always behind, not in front of the other controls.
In VB6 I would have simply used a label control and set it to transparent,
but this doesn't work in .NET, the background of a label can be set to
'transparent', but this does not show the other controls through, instead it
fills in the background with the form background. I'm sure there must be a
simple way to acheive this, but I can't find it at the moment.
Any ideas appreciated.
Thanks
Phil.
(VB2005Express)
Sep 11 '07
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