ImageBox transparent background color

[Deer2014]

Hi,

Is it possible to set the ImageBox background color to transparent?
As with a standard .NET System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox.
Is this not supported? 

Thanks,

[Richard Moss]

Hello,

This isn't something that is currently supported, although I raised an issue on the source repository to add this in a future update.

In the meantime, you could try creating your own custom control that inherits from ImageBox and turns on the correct style, then it will automatically paint correctly (if the BackColor property is set to Transparent) as I haven't overridden default background painting.

Code Select Expand

public class MyImageBox : Cyotek.Windows.Forms.ImageBox
{
  public MyImageBox()
  {
      this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, true);
  }
}


I haven't fully tested this, but from a quick experiment changing the demonstration application it seems to work.

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Hope this helps.

Regards;
Richard Moss

[Deer2014]

Thanks, I'll try this.