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Brandon
Brandon

Reputation: 69983

Change tooltip background color in VS2015

In VS2015 I have the Color Theme Editor extension installed and I'm using the Dark with Light Editor theme.

The hover tooltips are mostly unreadable as the tooltip background is too dark.

screenshot

I've tried changing settings in Tools → Options → Environment → Fonts and Colors, but couldn't find anything to make the signature just plain white. I've also tried cloning the theme through the theme editor and customizing the settings, but I don't know what settings would be responsible for this.

Does anyone know how to make this readable?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 6583

Answers (4)

Goran Stefanović
Goran Stefanović

Reputation: 191

You can change the tooltip background color like this (does not require Color Theme Editor extension):

  1. Tools > Options...
  2. Environment > Fonts and Colors
  3. Show settings for: Environment
  4. Display items: ToolTip
  5. Select color from Item background dropdown or click Custom button

Look of Options dialog with selected ToolTip item

Upvotes: 19

mcfrei
mcfrei

Reputation: 21

I am also using Color Theme Editor Extension with the custom theme, based on "Dark with light editor". Actually, the background color of the tooltip for me was
Environment -> CommandBarMenuBackgroundGradientBegin.
(see Brandon's answer on how to change it)
IDE Screenshot

Upvotes: 0

userx01233433
userx01233433

Reputation: 376

This is a fix for users using Windows High Contrast Theme. In such case there is no way to change tooltip background color in Visual Studio options window and neither in Theme Color Editor extension.

So to fix it:

  1. Go to /AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Themes and find theme you are currently using.
  2. Open it in editor and find section [Control Panel\Colors]
  3. Modify properties InfoText and InfoWindow for example
    • InfoText=255 255 255
    • InfoWindow=0 0 0
  4. Reload current theme (switch to other theme and then back to this)

Result (Visual Studio 2015 and Windows High Contrast theme):

Final resultA

Upvotes: 1

amain
amain

Reputation: 1688

Using the Color Theme Editor extension, change the tooltip background color like this:

  1. Click on "Edit Theme"
  2. Click on "Show All Elements" in the menu bar (by default, only "Common Elements" are shown)
  3. Find the Environment -> ToolTip entry. This affects the tooltip background color.

Upvotes: 13

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