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Transparent Text Boxes in VB

Posted by andymcnab [send private reply] at March 13, 2002, 10:51:09 AM

Hello does anyone know how to get transparent text boxes.

Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at March 13, 2002, 11:43:37 AM

VB sucks...

Posted by andymcnab [send private reply] at March 13, 2002, 01:25:27 PM

VB does not suck i reckon its better than any other language, all the others are just to hard! Plus its od for beginner programmers like me!!

Posted by taubz [send private reply] at March 13, 2002, 02:18:01 PM

Clearly if there's no "transparent" property for the textbox then it cannot be done!

- taubz

Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at March 13, 2002, 02:34:33 PM

Ill say one good thing about VB, It creates windows programs a hell of a lot easier than using Win32 and C++

Posted by gian [send private reply] at March 13, 2002, 10:46:25 PM

CodeRed, Borland C++ Builder blows VB away... twice.

Posted by metamorphic [send private reply] at March 14, 2002, 03:18:03 AM

ugh, its just personal opinion, VB definatly has its place. Its a RAD type lang which makes it perfect for testing out win apps quickly. Anyway to my knowledge you cannot make text boxes transparent, you can however make labels have a transparent backround

Marc

Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at March 14, 2002, 01:53:30 PM

Transparent text boxes would only be supported by WinXP anyways

Posted by gian [send private reply] at March 14, 2002, 01:56:17 PM

BCB is also a RAD type language, with drag and drop components, except with some guts driving it.

Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at March 15, 2002, 01:51:52 AM

If you were really despearte you could achieve a similar effect with a label and a lot of work: change appearance on getting\losing focus, have a blinking pipe character in there somewhere, move it back and forth with the arrow keys, add letters to the relevant place when a relevant key is pressed, and so on. I dunno why you'd bother.

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