[Gambas-user] gb3: tooltip color sources in Qt/KDE

[Kevin Fishburne]

On 10/07/2011 05:06 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> On 10/07/2011 04:47 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>>> What foreground and background colors in Qt/KDE does gb3 pull its
>>>> tooltip color settings from? Tooltip colors aren't programmable from
>>>> gb3's settings, and I tested them with different KDE color schemes and
>>>> they are affected. I can't figure out which colors their settings are
>>>> taken from (they don't appear to match any of the colors in KDE's color
>>>> schemes).
>>> What tooltips are you talking about exactly?
>> In the gb3 IDE, when you pause the execution of the application and
>> double-click a variable to expose its value through the tooltip/hover
>> mechanism.
> OK! This is not a true tooltip, just a little panel with a yellow background.
> I have no tooltip color property in the Gambas Color class yet...
>

That sounds right. I'm not trying to control the legacy tooltip colors 
in my own program; I just want the IDE to use colors from the DE or 
GAMBAS style overrides. What is so interesting to me is how the tooltip 
colors change when KDE changes color schemes, yet don't seem to 
associate with sane or even present values.

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