I'm working on an application where I'm using a background image and would like to allow the text to be edited with my background image showing through instead of the gray bar. Is that possible right now? If not, perhaps could this be changed in iGrid itself?

Thanks!

It is not an easy task to make the background of the Windows native edit control we use for editing transparent. You can search the Internet and see that many developers provide solutions, but it seems every solution is designated for a specific situation and/or has some caveats.

In iGrid, the edit box uses the background color of the cell (or the whole grid). Maybe, the best and simplest workaround for this task is to set the cell/grid backcolor to a color closest to the used image.

Another possible solution is to use an external control which supports transparency to edit grid cells. If anybody knows such a control, share the link here with the community.

That's not what I was hoping for, but I guess I can live with changing the grid's background color to more closely match the image. The alternative sounds like it's way more fuss than it's worth.

So to change the way the cell text editing in iGrid works would also be quite a lot of work, and there would be caveats, hmmm?