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Asked: 2026-05-23T23:16:00+00:00

I’ve got a window I popup that I’d like to style the same as

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I’ve got a window I popup that I’d like to style the same as the default Windows tooltip.

What system colour should I be setting the BackColor property to? There isn’t a TooltipBackColor in the system colours property tab.

Apologies to Jalal Aldeen Saa’d but I’m already using System.Drawing.SystemColors.Info and this doesn’t change from the default dull yellow colour when I change theme, but the tooltip backgrounds do, as you can see in this screen shot:

tooltip colours

(It’s actually a bug that you can get both the tooltip and the popup visible at the same time)

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    The windows default is called Info…

    EDIT:

    If you are in WPF (which supports theming) then according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.windows.systemcolors.infocolor%28v=vs.85%29.aspx it is System.Windows.SystemColors.InfoColor
    this updates automatically with the chosen theme

    EDIT 2- for WinForms:
    it is a bit more complicated… you instanciate a System.Windows.Forms.VisualStyles.VisualStyleRenderer with a VisualStyleElement.ToolTip.Standard.Normal and then you can call GetColor on the renderer with System.Windows.Forms.VisualStyles.ColorProperty.FillColor
    that gives you the current theme backgoundcolor of a tooltip

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