Problem with translucent background color

Question

The other day I used Color.FromArgb() to make a nice translucent label I ended up not using it but now I can't remember how I did it. I set the background color to Color.FromArgb(60000); Which should be somewhat translucent but it's still opaque. Is there anything I'm missing you think?

Jason · Answer

OK I added an image background to my usercontrol and now the label is translucent but only to the image not the controls behind it.

Jason · Answer

I could have sworn I just did this.lbl.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(60000); No errors it's just not translucent at all. I had used it before to make the black out effect that some web pages have now I'd just unhide the label and have a dialog box pop up.

Thomas · Answer

what is your actual code and error message. I played around with that a little and it seemed to work ok. this is what I did and it worked fine... Color Red = Color.FromArgb(255 0 0); testlabel.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(60 Red);