Codelog

Before me starting off with the article, sorry for not posting anything last week. I was kinna busy with the office works Hmm. Lets begin.

Have you ever tried to put a transparent image over a button or some other control ?? I meant transparent. If not, lets try it.

Way that may not give you the solution you need

• Add a button in to you application
• Drag a picturebox
• Import an image in to the picturebox (for the one who dosen’t know how to do it programaticall — refer here !!)
• Make the picturebox’s background transparent (use the property Background
• Does it look really transparent ?? (See the control’s — image’s background !!)

Way that you may be interested to know about

• Add a button to your application


System.Windows.Forms.Button myTransparentImageButton = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

this.Controls.Add(myTransparentImageButton);

• For the picture … do we need a picturebox to put the image ?? No. Lets try to draw the image over the button.

• Import an image to the resource file and add the following snippet to the paint event of the button

private void myTransparentImageButton_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)  //Handling the
paintevent as the image should be painted over the button when the button is painted
{
     Graphics aGraphics = e.Graphics;  //To draw the image, we use the abstract class -- Graphics
     Image aImage = (Image)<your_name_space>.<resource_file_class_name>.<image>;  //Creating an
image object using the bitmap from the resource file
     aGraphics.DrawImage(aImage, new Point(e.ClipRectangle.Width - aImage.Width, 0)); //Drawing the
image in the required position
}