Styled Tooltips



It took me a while to realize it, but in WPF you can even style the tooltips! It's actually pretty cool, I just wonder why the default style is the same old boring yellow rectangle.

I decided it'd be super cool to have bubble quotes instead. Now if only I could convince the Vista folks on this as well :)

My 10 minute hacked version:

<Style TargetType='{x:Type ToolTip}'>
<Setter Property='Placement' Value='Mouse'/>
<Setter Property='VerticalOffset' Value='-55'/>
<Setter Property='Template'>
<Setter.Value>
 <ControlTemplate TargetType='{x:Type ToolTip}'>
     <Grid>
         <Rectangle Fill="#FFFFFFFF" Stroke="#FF000000" StrokeThickness="2"
RadiusX="5" RadiusY="5"
Margin="0,0,0,10"/>

         <ContentPresenter Margin='4,4,4,14'/>
         <Path Clip="M-5.5227271,3.0290776 
L89.970606,3.0290776 L89.970606,14.529078 
L-5.5227271,14.529078 z"
Fill="#FFFFFFFF"
Stretch="Fill"
StrokeEndLineCap="Flat"
StrokeLineJoin="Round"
StrokeMiterLimit="0"
Stroke="#FF000000"
StrokeThickness="2"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Margin="6.12629377841949,0,0,0.592573191324899"
VerticalAlignment="Bottom"
Width="16.024208009243"
Height="14.4365043640137"
Data="M7.169073,17.488649 L7.1262943,29.684093 21.150503,17.247589"/>
     </Grid>
 </ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>