transparent ListView background

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looked and looked and couldn't find a super simple way for newbies like me to get a transparent background on a listview box. (I know if it was a snake it would have bitten me, haha)

Maybe there's a super simple way to do what I'm wanting... I want to select from a list of subdirectories or listview items. The list or listview having a transparent background so you just see the text(in my case the names of subfolders). The form itself has a background image and I want that to show through into the list or listview box with the listview text visible along with the form background.

looking for simple, fast and clean :-)

* I'm a newbie and I probably won't pickup what you're putting down, but thanks for trying. :-)

Posted 25-Aug-10 22:39pm

write2dale

Updated 25-Aug-10 22:45pm

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BillW33 · Answer 1 · 2011-05-12T06:50:00

Controls do not support transparent background by default.
You can derive a usercontrol from the base listview class and add the capability to have a transparent background.

Here [^]is an article on how to make a custom listbox that include transparency.

Here[^] is a more basic article on making transparent controls.

See this [^]also.

Rick Shaub · Answer 2 · 2011-05-12T07:53:00

Solution 3

This link[^] should be helpful. It basically says to derive a new class from the control and override the OnPaintBackground method to do nothing.

Copied from this previous answer:
PictureBox with Transparent Picture[^]

Posted 12-May-11 7:53am

Rick Shaub

Christian Graus · Answer 3 · 2010-08-25T23:53:00

Solution 1

If making a transparent brush the background does not work, then it probably can't be done.

Posted 25-Aug-10 23:53pm

Christian Graus

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Toli Cuturicu 26-Aug-10 6:15am

Reason for my vote of 1
false

BillW33 12-May-11 12:51pm

It can be done, just not directly. See my answer.