Adding Label onto Ribbon and make background of label transparent

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Patrick posted over 16 years ago

I am trying to add a label to the ribbon (in MDI) but the label background
color cannot be sent to transparent. I am using the label as a title for
what report is opened. Also, I allow the ability for users to choose their
own styles so this is why the label background must be transparent, but I
cannot get that to work. Any Ideas?

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Mike Dour posted over 16 years ago

I'm not sure I understand the issue. By default the LabelTool's background is transparent so the gradient of the ribbon group can show through. If you post a picture of the problem I might be able to help.
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Patrick posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

I attached the image. The label is on the ribbon. As you can see the label
is pulling the background color from the parent form in this MDI layout.
Can I make it transparent or have it use the gradient from the ribbon? Keep
in mind I allow to user to dynamically change the styles of the app.

wrote in message news:11878@forums.infragistics.com...
> I'm not sure I understand the issue. By default the LabelTool's background
> is transparent so the gradient of the ribbon group can show through. If
> you post a picture of the problem I might be able to help.
>
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Offline genvej posted over 15 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

I have to manulla set the background to web->transparent.. then it works
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Mike Dour posted over 15 years ago in reply to genvej

Can you verify that the UltraLabel is a child of the UltraGroupBox, either through the designer code or with the Document Outline pane in VS? Also, is the background color of the UltraLabel specifically set to Transparent? If not, it could be picking up the ambient back color from the UltraGroupBox, which may be the Control color even though the group box is drawing another color or gradient in its Paint event.
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Offline genvej posted over 15 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

Im still in the dark...

I have an ultragroupbox. When i add an ultralabel to the ultragroupbox it gets the backgroundcolor of the form.

What to do ?
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Bhavesh posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

Mike, Thanks for this information on the Forum. I was try getting the same effect for a Label on PictureBox. Though I had made the BackColor Transparent it was drawing the Control BackColor.

After reading this post, I added the control in PictureBox controls collection (PictureBox as parent). And the trick worked.
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Patrick posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

Thanks so much, I was unaware of the ribbon caption property... that should
work just great!
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> Is this a .Net Label control? If so, it looks like its parent control is
> the form and not the top dock area of the toolbars manager, which is why
> its bakground is the form's color and not the ribbon color. When a control
> has a transparent background, it is not actually transparent. Before
> painting itself, the .net framework has its parent controls paint on the
> control first, which simulates transparency. So in this case, the form
> (and not the dock area showing the ribbon) paints to the Label, then the
> Label paints its text. You can try to iterate the controls of the form to
> get to the top dock area and add the Label to that control. However, it
> looks like you just want a caption for your form. If you set the Text of
> the form, I think the ribbon will display it. You can also set the Caption
> and CaptionInactive properties of the Ribbon to set your own caption.
> These can be formatted text as well.
>
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