>>>I have a textbox on a form and I've set its Backstyle property to 0-Transparent. This works as expected when I'm designing the form, however, when I run the form, it is no longer transparent!
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>>>I discovered this problem when I set the form's picture property to a bitmap and saw that all of the textboxes were behaving as "1-Opaque" and not Transparent as I'd specified.
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>>>Does anyone have any ideas as to why and if there is a way to get a transparent textbox at runtime?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Mike
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>>Hi Mike,
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>>I ran into this problem a while back. You can note that the textbox will be transparent as long as it does not have focus. I guess that there is some requirement that a textbox with focus reverts back to opaque. There appears to be no workaround ( at least for native controls ).
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>>Bill
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>Thanks for the reply Bill.

Not very helpful, was it? :-) Unfortunately it's about all there is to say. Perhaps a third party control will do what you want.

Bill