tooltip colours?
Friday, March 18, 2011 by Goat Gamp | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Recently upgraded to Windows 7 and WB7 because my computer died a death recently and I had to buy a new one. Everything with WB seems to be fine apart from being unable to change the tooltip colours unless there is some sort of option I've unchecked or I need to put a registry value in or something like that
usually in WB6 I was able to change the tooltip by using the skin colours and changing "info window" and "info text" to the values I wanted, these two options are still here but still the tooltip remains a white/light blue-ish colour so I'm guessing Windows 7 has changed something there, just like a lot of things from Vista have changed when you move to Windows 7. I tried a random test earlier by taking all the skin colour options and setting them to a certain colour (red) the result gave me the tooltip text changing to red but still the background is that light blue-ish/white colour. Probably been asked before but does anyone know how I can get the tooltip to change colour? I've got WB7 and Skinstudio 7 if I have to edit anything
Reply #2 Friday, March 18, 2011 10:19 AM
I use SKS to edit and snip aand snipe items from other skins to create a a skin or improve a skin that indicates my personal preferences
Reply #3 Friday, March 18, 2011 11:18 AM
thanks for the help, managed to change the tooltip colours although I'm guessing it's Windows 7 is the reason why you can't just use "info window" and "info text" to fix it now
Reply #4 Friday, March 18, 2011 11:39 AM
Play around with SKS you can change so much more with in than you can in WB. I use a combination of both an example is I frame all the under edit control\edit button controls, I some time also change the colours
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Reply #1 Friday, March 18, 2011 9:53 AM
Additional tooltip options have been added. In skinstudio: Edit controls>Edit tree view and tooltip controls. The background is skinnable and text control is also found there. I suggest a solid background image (bmp) at 51x15px