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Re: Background Color in Tooltip

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  • Subject: [mg78771] Re: Background Color in Tooltip
  • From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:35:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks Pratik,

I do think though that the Backgound issues originally poined out by
David Park is either a bug or a documentation error.  It certainly was
confusing to me.

Best,

David

On Jul 8, 6:10 am, Pratik Desai <prat... at wolfram.com> wrote:
> 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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