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Frank Uray
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UltraLabel with Opacity
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Hi all

I am using Infragistics 13.2 on Framework 4

I need to add opacity for a UltraLabel.
Does anybody knows how to do this ?
The goal would be to show the UltraLabel over some form controls.
The underneath contols should be a little visible and on the UltraLabel
there will be some text computed.

Thanks a lot for any help !

Best regards
Frank Uray

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    Offline posted in reply to Mike Saltzman

    ok, thanks.

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    Suggested Answer
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    Hi Frank,

    Opacity means that you can't see through the control. What you want is transparency. But I don't think this will work, unless the controls you want to show through the label are containers.

    The way Transparency works in DotNet is that the control will ask it's parent (container) control to draw into itself and then it draws on top of that. So if you have an UltraLabel inside a panel, and you want to see the panel through the UltraLabel, you can just set the BackColor of the UltraLabel to a color with an alpha channel so it's semi transparent.

    But if you want to have an UltraLabel and some other control which the UltraLabel just overlaps and is not truly contained within, it will not work.