Making a Tabcontrol Transparent

[one234]

Hello All,

I'm making a Visual Basic .NET program.

I've created a from with a Tab control and some other controls.

I also added a background image for the form and made all controls transparent so you can see the image through the control.

The problem is that I'm unable to make the tab control transparent. So now I have a nice background with a big grey square in the middle

Could somebody tell me how I can make the tab control transparent?!?!?!?

TIA!!



Marc D.

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[bigtimmin]

Try this site

http://www.devnewsgroups.net/link.aspx?url=http://dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html

see the TabControlEX section.

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[chrissie1]

or try this site

http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WindowsForms/FAQ_c41c.aspx#q701q

Controls with a "Transparent" color actually render their parent's background, so you're seeing the White background of the Form, not the PictureBox. Three easy ways to deal with this:


Use a Panel with it's "BackgroundImage" property set instead of a PictureBox, and parent the LinkLabels to the panel (PictureBoxes generally don't have children)
Set the BackgroundImage of the Form to the image (basically the same as 1 above, but avoids the extra control)
In code, set the Parent of the LinkLabel to be the PictureBox. You'll need to update the LinkLabel's position to match the new origin of the parent if the PictureBox isn't at (0,0)
(Shawn Burke on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms newsgroup)

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

If you want to get an answer read this FAQ faq796-2540
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