How do I change the color of the tooltip for only one component?

Question

How do I change the color of the tooltip for only one component?

I know you can do the following for changing tooltip colors:

UIManager.put("ToolTip.background", new ColorUIResource(255, 247, 200)); 

But this changes the tooltip background for all component, not just one.

Any easy solutions?

Answer 1

+1 to @MadProgrammer and @Reimeus for their advice and example.

These are both correct.

To add...

There is no default way to do this. You have to extend the ToolTip class, to create your own custom ToolTip with foreground and background color, and then extend JComponents class (JButton, JLabel, etc. are all JComponents ) and override itscreateToolTip() method and sets your custom ToolTip as the the JComponents ToolTip, like this :

Here is an example I made:

import java.awt.Color;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JToolTip;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

/**
 *
 * @author David
 */
public class CustomJToolTipTest {

    private JFrame frame;

    public CustomJToolTipTest() {
        initComponents();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                new CustomJToolTipTest();
            }
        });
    }

    private void initComponents() {
        frame = new JFrame("Test");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setResizable(false);


        JButton button = new JButton("button") {
            //override the JButtons createToolTip method
            @Override
            public JToolTip createToolTip() {
                return (new CustomJToolTip(this));
            }
        };
        button.setToolTipText("I am a button with custom tooltip");

        frame.add(button);

        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

class CustomJToolTip extends JToolTip {

    public CustomJToolTip(JComponent component) {
        super();
        setComponent(component);
        setBackground(Color.black);
        setForeground(Color.red);
    }
}

Answer 2

You need to provide a custom JTooltip for the component.

Take a look at JComponent#createToolTip

From the Java Docs

Returns the instance of JToolTip that should be used to display the tooltip. Components typically would not override this method, but it can be used to cause different tooltips to be displayed differently.