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Re: Background Color in Tooltip

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  • Subject: [mg78733] Re: Background Color in Tooltip
  • From: Pratik Desai <pratikd at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 06:06:54 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <f6krpo$l7t$1@smc.vnet.net><f6nong$6h6$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Jul 7, 5:08 am, David Reiss <dbre... at gmail.com> wrote:
> That would, I think, be a bug....
>
> I would encourage folks in this group to be sure to report bugs or bug-
> like entities to WRI.  That way they are sure to go into WRI's bug
> tracking system and get addressed.  I konw that the folks at WRI read
> this group in detail, but submitting a bug report is the best way to
> be sure that it doesn't get lost in the brightness of the summer
> sunshine (metaphor appropriate in my hemisphere).
>
> --Davidhttp://scientificarts.com/worklife

>
> On Jul 6, 3:42 am, "David Park" <djmp... at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > The following seems strange to me:
>
> > Tooltip[xxx, xxx, Background->Pink]
>
> > because the documentation says: "background color for the tooltip" and it
> > seems that the natural thing we might want to do is control the background
> > color in the tooltip and not the output.
>
> > One way to overcome this is to make the second argument of Tooltip a Panel
> > and then we can not only control the Background color but also the ImageSize
> > to prevent runon tooltips. Or WRI could have made Background actually apply
> > to the tooltip and also allowed ImageSize as a Tooltip option.
>
> > --
> > David Park
> > djmp... at comcast.nethttp://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/

Hi David,

Actually one can do this by using the LabelStyle option to Tooltip

Tooltip[xxx, xxx, LabelStyle -> {Background -> Red}]


Regards,

Pratik Desai
Wolfram Research



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