Hi everyone,

I'm writing a custom TextBox that inherits from UserControl. I can't
use a standard TextBox, or inherit from it or TextBoxBase, as it needs
to support proper transparency, meaning both the background needs to
be transparent, and the foreground back colour (I'm finding that if I
set the background to transparent, and the foreground to black, text
is being rendered as black on white, which rather does away with the
transparency)

I need to draw,( in the OnPaint method) a caret at the correct
position, but can't really get it to work. Have tried computing the
position using graphics.MeasureCharacterRanges, but without luck

any help or tips would be appreciated

thanks in advance

rachel