Winforms semi-transparent PNG over semi-transparent PNG

Question

I think I must be missing something obvious, but I\'m unable to find this after several hours of searching. Is there no way to use a PictureBox or other control to contain

Answer 1

Sorry, I just found this... once I decided to Google for "winforms transparent panel" instead of the searches I was doing before, the TransPictureBox example show seems to do exactly what I need:

Transparency Problem by Overlapped PictureBox's at C#

Looks like there are 2 parts to it:

1. Set WS_EX_TRANSPARENT for the window style

2. Override the "draw background" method (or optionally could probably make the control style Opaque).