label over picbox

[phil m]

hi

I know a label won't appear OVER a picture box - but if you really, really must have a label OVER a picture box - an image just won't do, sadly - then how do you do it?

Many thanks

Phil

[TH1]

You could
1: Put the label into the picturebox
2: Use a texbox but set its border to none and its backcolour to grey so that it looks like a label.A textbox will show above a picturebox
3:Make the picturebox transparent so that the label shows through

[phil m]

Thanks very much but ... ah, there's always one

>1: Put the label into the picturebox

Man, there's all sorts of resizing and stacks of labels and boy that would cause a lot of work adding and sizing all those picture boxes. had thought of that but was hoping there's be a simpler way.

>2: Use a texbox but set its border to none and >its backcolour to grey so that it looks like a >label.A textbox will show above a picturebox

Had thought of that with disabling it and the other stuff but the reason it's a label was the resizing and simplicity and the fact that it is a caption which gels with the command buttons I have and the for each cnt in controls that sets this that and the other - this is a massive app - well, it's billions of lines of code - none of it good and ... well, you get the picture.

>3:Make the picturebox transparent so that the >label shows through

The label isn't in the picture box - the picture boxes are everywhere in the background and the labels appear later - over all of them - or not as the case may be.

I've plugged away doing it with a image boxes and - you know how they are - always flashing and stuff - annoying beasts, never liked them. Anyway, just poked the programming enough to make the flashes stop and it just about works - so, thank you anyway. Hope I didn't rattle on to long.

Thanks again.

Phil