I have set the BackColor property of the form and all controls within it to white, but still some of it has the Control (gray) color (e.g. the context menu of the MenuStrip, the tabs of the TabControl, and the border of the form itself).
Basically I'm trying to make the appearance of my application in flat white.
Is it possible to achieve this in WinForms?
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I was wondering if I could draw the background of a tabpage in C# transparent like so I can see behind the window itself. I though it would give a cool effect but I don't know if or how I can do it.
You can set the Appearance property of TabControl to Buttons Instead of using BackColor property. That would bring transparent tab page look and cool effect.
VB & C# syntax
TabPage1.BackColor = Color.Transparent
this will show the tabpage1 color as the form color.
I want to make a borderless form that has a thin black edge (like the first one from the picture http://www.vcskicks.com/remove-titlebar.php ). I want to do this because the form is poorly visible(it combines with my background).
Make a borderless form as described in the article you linked to
Add a Panel control
Set the panel's Dock to "fill"
Change the BorderStyle on the panel to get the effect you want. (BorderStyle.FixedSingle)
Add the remaining controls to the Panel.
Change the Form's padding to 1,1,1,1
Set the Form's backcolor to the color you want for your border
Add a panel
Set Panel to fill the form
Set Panel color to 'control' or whatever
I have an autocompletebox that I am trying to remove the border from. Just setting the border to a transparent color or a border thickness of zero isn't good enough, because when the box is moused over, a secondary border appears. The style template for the control is cryptic enough for me that my guesses on changing different parameters have not resulted in border changes.
What do I need to do to disable the border for this control?
Normally, this is due to the FocusVisualElement component in styletemplates for controls.
I can see that the Autocompletebox doesn't have this component, but the Autocompletebox itself is built with more basic controls who do have such an element in their style template.
Try making a style for a textbox without the focusvisualelement (remove it completely from the template) and let the textbox inside the Autocompletebox make use of that template, that should remove the border from the autocompletebox.
So the style contained a control template with the textbox used in the autocomplete user control... I just replaced the style specifically for that textbox to show a transparent border on the mouseover state.
Why does not a user control have the 'Opacity' property? How can I use set the property on a user control?
For winforms
To make a UserControl transparent, we have to give it a WS_EX_TRANSPARENT style, override its OnPaintBackground method to draw the background with the opacity, and then invalidates its Parent to redraw the control whenever we need to update the graphics
For WinForms
You can just set User Control Background property to Transparent in web colors tab
but for opacity such as 50% i am looking for a solution.
I would like to put a LinkLabel with a transparent background over a TabControl. The tab control has NO tabpage.
As it's not possible to add controls other than TabPages to a TabControl, what I do it add the LinkLabel to the control that contains the TabCOntrol, and then use BringToFront on the LinkLabel. This displays it over the TabControl.
Problem: The LinkLabel displays as transparent (BackColor Property), but instead of showing the TabControl's colour as background, it shows the background colour of it's parent, the control that also contains the TabControl.
From what I understand, this is normal behaviour as a Transparent BackColor means that it'll just take the parent's colour.
Question: Is there any solution to display my LinkLabel with the TabControl's background colour?
Thanks
I may be wrong about this, but I think that if you change the LinkLabel's BackColor property in code (e.g. in your form's Load event, as opposed to just setting it in the designer) to match the color of your TabControl, it will work the way you want it to.
Thanks for your answers. I'm now get what you meant.
Using the tab Control's BackColor won't work, because this property always returns the ColorSystemColors.Control, which is greyish. However, when using visual styles (e.g. XP's default theme), the TabControl's back colour is kind of white. I cannot use white either as the tab control is not pure white, but gradient white...