How to overlay a textbox with an image?

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Hi everyone!

I'm stuck here in WPF.
I have a textbox (inside a grid) and I want to show an image right on the upper left corner of the textbox overlaying parts of the textbox, like so:

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This is how it looks in HTML (using position:absolute).
Do you see how the red image covers the textbox (of "Name") with a quarter of its size?!

How can I achieve this in WPF?

Posted 4-Mar-15 5:08am

exoc

Updated 4-Mar-15 5:11am

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I would not advise doing such things, because it would compromise text readability, distract and irritate the users.
One trivial way would be this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21765677/how-to-overlay-an-image-over-an-image-in-wpf[^].

Instead of video, use image. The trick is to use the same grid and the same row and column. You can also use Canvas. Also, you can make any of the UI elements semi-transparent: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.uielement.opacity%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 4-Mar-15 5:25am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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exoc · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-04T22:37:00

Solution 2

Here is what I finally did (and it works like a charm):

I'm using a custom Adorner([MSDN]).

All I had to do is replace the "drawEllipse" (and the other brush-stuff) with "drawImage" and adjust the location (using the AdornedElement)

Posted 4-Mar-15 22:37pm

exoc