Transparent Background on Picture Box

[kevinheeney]

VB.NET

 

How do I make a picturebox's background be truly transparent. So that there is no background over any control. I have attached a picture to demonstrate my problem.

 

The white box in the picture is a picture box. I want the zoom and menus at the top to have transparent backgrounds, not have them simply be the same as the form's background. So that over the white picturebox, that part of the menu icon(picbox I want transparent) will be white instead of the form's background.

 

If any one has any suggestions, please let me know.

 

Kevin Heeney

[divil]

Windows just doesn't support truly transparent (or translucent) controls, only top-level windows.

 

For an interface like this, you should be doing all the drawing yourself in the form's Paint event, anyway - using controls for all the UI elements is a little wasteful and as you have discovered, quite restrictive graphically.