Show and edit transparent background text over an picturebox image

Question

 Hello, I need your help please:

I have picturebox, the back ground of this picturebox is bitmap image "floorplan image", I need to show a text over this image with transparent backcolor , "I think textbox hasn't this property" and the customer can edit this text  (by clicking on it and edit the text) at run time.

and these changes to the text must be kept "saved" at next run time.

Thank you for your help.

public partial class Form1 : Form
    {

PictureBox pictureBoxMap = new PictureBox();

public Form1()
        {

 InitializeComponent();

Bitmap image1 = new Bitmap(@"D:\New Folder1\Map.png");

pictureBoxMap.Image = (Image)image1;

this.Controls.Add(pictureBoxMap);

Answer 1

Hello, I need your help please:

I have picturebox, the back ground of this picturebox is bitmap image "floorplan image", I need to show a text over this image with transparent backcolor , "I think textbox hasn't this property" and the customer can edit this text  (by clicking on it and edit the text) at run time.

and these changes to the text must be kept "saved" at next run time.

Thank you for your help.

public partial class Form1 : Form
    {

PictureBox pictureBoxMap = new PictureBox();

public Form1()
        {

 InitializeComponent();

Bitmap image1 = new Bitmap(@"D:\New Folder1\Map.png");

pictureBoxMap.Image = (Image)image1;

this.Controls.Add(pictureBoxMap);

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Yaman

Answer 2

triple post (how far will this go when i keep on browsing the forums...)

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/d0e2893e-2a7a-4219-945d-125c1359765a

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharplanguage/thread/dfbce495-09c9-4814-b876-14d4ac6f487c

Regards,

  Thorsten

Answer 3

Hi yamanneameh,

It seems that you would like to create a transparent textbox over the picturebox. As far as I know, the textbox doesn't support transparent backcolor by default. But here is an article about how to set alpha blend with textbox.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4390/AlphaBlendTextBox-A-transparent-translucent-textbo

If you want to save the text, you may try to save it in a config file or use settings.settings.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869(v=VS.80).aspx

Best regards,

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Chester Hong
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Answer 4

I tried AlphaBlend dll file but it didnt work well, so what I did is I took the exact color of my pictureboxand make the txtbox with the same backcolor

txtRoomNames[i].BackColor = Color.FromArgb(31, 32, 49);

and to change textbox texts & save this text for the next runtime I did it in this link:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/f4f6929c-b27b-4246-9947-70a8f18ce68f

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Yaman

Answer 5

Hi yamanneameh,

I'm glad to hear that you found the solution.

Thanks for sharing it.

Best regards,

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Chester Hong
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us
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