label text over

[atesh]

somebody please explain to me how to do this: all i want is to have some text appear over the top of several labels in my form.

for an example: look at the attached image. I want the red 'Text' to appear over the labels but I don't want the grey background. It's driving me crazy trying to accomplish this so a little guidance is greatly appreciated.

[wyrd]

I'd use an invisible label which I set Visible = true/false depending to show/hide text. Making the label have a transparent background (isn't that the default?) should remove the gray area.

[atesh]

making it transparent doesn't remove the gray area.

[Bucky]

Instead of using Labels in the first place, you could draw the

text on Form manually in its Paint event. You'd have much more

control over painting them, and then you could paint the red

text without the ugly label background.

[atesh]

but won't the drawn text go onto the form and the other labels will cover it up?

[pjv]

No, I think the stuff in OnPaint gets done last, but when this sort of thing occurs.. just try it?

 

Pete

[Volte]

If you do what Bucky said, you'll want to avoid using labels at all; use the FillRectangle method of the graphics object (e.Graphics in the Paint event) to paint the solid colored backgrounds, and then the [d]DrawString[/b] method to draw the text.