View source on GitHub. In part 1 of this article I looked at the differences between WPF tooltips and ‘native’ (Win32) tooltips. In this part I present a sample WPF application that displays native tooltips. I’d planned to walk through some of the code here, but that turned out to be a bit tedious, so […]
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Native Tooltips in WPF (Part 1)
View source on GitHub. <preamble> One of my hobbies is getting WPF controls to look more like their native counterparts. I’ve been shoehorning the UxTheme APIs (and older equivalents when theming is unavailable) into something that can be used by WPF over the past year or more, and I’ll write about this process at some […]
WPF ToolTip Drop Shadows in Windows 8
The standard ToolTip control template for the Windows 8 theme in WPF (‘Aero2’) has no drop shadow, whether or not the HasDropShadow property is set. The background colour and margins are also slightly off compared to the native style. The following template produces a result that’s closer to the real thing:
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<Style TargetType="{x:Type ToolTip}"> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="#FF575757" /> <Setter Property="Background" Value="#FFFFFFFF" /> <Setter Property="Padding" Value="5,1,6,2" /> <Setter Property="HasDropShadow" Value="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemParameters.DropShadowKey}}" /> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ToolTip}" xmlns:themes="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Themes;assembly=PresentationFramework.Aero"> <themes:SystemDropShadowChrome Name="Shdw" themes:SystemDropShadowChrome.Color="Transparent" themes:SystemDropShadowChrome.CornerRadius="0" SnapsToDevicePixels="True"> <Border Name="Border" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" SnapsToDevicePixels="True"> <ContentPresenter TextOptions.TextFormattingMode="Display" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}" VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}" /> </Border> </themes:SystemDropShadowChrome> <ControlTemplate.Triggers> <Trigger Property="HasDropShadow" Value="True"> <Setter TargetName="Shdw" Property="Margin" Value="0,0,5,5" /> <Setter TargetName="Shdw" Property="themes:SystemDropShadowChrome.Color" Value="#71000000" /> </Trigger> </ControlTemplate.Triggers> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> |
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