Changing the font of tool tip text

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qu0ll - 22 Dec 2006 09:28 GMT

Is it possible to change the properties of the font used in displaying tool
tip text for a JComponent?

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IchBin - 22 Dec 2006 17:35 GMT

> Is it possible to change the properties of the font used in displaying tool
> tip text for a JComponent?

I am sure you can use html in your tooltip. Hence you could define you
font this way.

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Thomas Kellerer - 22 Dec 2006 17:51 GMT

qu0ll wrote on 22.12.2006 10:28:

> Is it possible to change the properties of the font used in displaying tool
> tip text for a JComponent?

You could override createToolTip() and then set the Font:

public JTooltip createToolTip()
{
JToolTip tip = super.createToolTip();
tip.setFont(myFont);
return tip;
}

haven't tried this though.

If you want to change it globally, you can do this by applying the necessary
UIDefaults *before* creating the first Swing Component.

UIDefaults def = UIManager.getDefaults();
def.put("ToolTip.font", myFont);

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Steve W. Jackson - 22 Dec 2006 18:34 GMT

> qu0ll wrote on 22.12.2006 10:28:
> > Is it possible to change the properties of the font used in displaying tool
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> Thomas

As to the UIDefaults part, I'm pretty sure I've read that the preferred
way of doing what's suggested here would be to use a FontUIResource
rather than a Font. The former subclasses the latter, and its API
Javadoc description says that "UI classes which set default font
properties should use this class." It has constructors accepting a Font
or the name, style and size as can be used with a Font.

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qu0ll - 23 Dec 2006 19:29 GMT

> You could override createToolTip() and then set the Font:
>
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> haven't tried this though.

Thanks, that did the trick.

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