glass windows and textboxes

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I am using visual basic .net. Visual studio 2005. Framework Version: 2.0 service pack 2

I want to put a textbox onto glass. However, when I do, the textbox text also goes to glass effect. I have searched online and everywhere I look, people says to change the Forms TransparencyKey. I tried this, it doesnt work for me. Any suggestions on how to get this to work right? (If only there were a way to use the Delphi Textbox in vb.net. I've messed around with the Delphi IDE and the form designer allows you to set glass and you can put a textbox in the glass, and it renders the right way)

Posted 13-Jul-11 15:06pm

CoderzF1

Updated 18-Jul-11 14:34pm

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Christian Graus 13-Jul-11 21:14pm

Did you consider telling us what language/framework you're using ?

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As far as I know, to make it works properly, the control must not be based on a window handle (HWND).

Thus, I can see 3 solutions:

Uses WPF instead of WinForms
Hide the text box and display it only when editing with an opaque background. I would think that this is the approch taken by Windows Explorer
Implement your own text box which is not based on an handle

Posted 18-Jul-11 15:36pm

Philippe Mori

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CoderzF1 · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-16T13:41:00

Didnt exactly solve it on my own, however after enough digging around on the internet, i found a solution to the textbox rendering on glass. it works on windows 7. not sure about vista. here is the link where i found the solution Solution . it is in c#, but easily ported to vb.net. there is also a link to download a sample project.