Can anybody tell me how to change the background and foreground on Balloon?

Running the following code produces dark grey text on a black background.

Can anybody tell me how to change the background and foreground on Balloon?

As far as I can find out they are suppose to be linked to the color of the system notification colors.  I tested out that theory and found it not to be true.  Also I have not found any setting in Gambas preferences that change the color that works either. You might want to ask the author of Gambas to see if there is a work around.  Sorry I wasn't any help.

cogier said

Running the following code produces dark grey text on a black background.

…you are using GTK, aren't you ?   
Change graphic resource: use QT.

Obviously, then, you know that you can use the HTML protocol with the text of the "Ballon" …

 My balloon text is white on black
but you can use this to make it more visible

Balloon.Font = Font["Arial,18,Bold,italic"]

As far as I can find out they are suppose to be linked to the color of the system notification colors.

Thanks cage, I also looked for these settings but all I was able to do was read what they are and not set them.

My balloon text is white on black
but you can use this to make it more visible

Balloon.Font = Font["Arial,18,Bold,italic"]

Thanks grayghost4 but that doesn't change the colour.

..you are using GTK, aren't you ?
Change graphic resource: use QT.

Thank vott, you are correct the colours are fine with QT but why not with GTK?

But changing to QT requires a major rewrite of the program  

That is probably because I don't write the program correctly

cogier said

Thank vott, you are correct the colours are fine with QT but why not with GTK?

It is the normal coloring of Ubuntu tooltips by using GTK.

I've been monkeying around with the Gambas source code.

My first test ,, try to add Background and Foreground to Balloon object  
Successfully accomplished
i can now use something like

and it works fine , by default it uses the Color.TooltipBackground and Color.TooltipForeground values as normal

Now i need to figure out how to add the changes for all……

 

Well i think i did everything right.
I've created my own gitlab account , forked my own version of gambas.
added the Balloon colour changes, committed it to my fork.
and sent a merge request.

With any luck Charlie you'll have Balloon colour settings at some time or other
https://gitlab.com/bsteers4/gambas

I'm a bit more experienced at merge requests now Charlie so I've re-submitted a request for Balloon colour properties.

Balloon.class: Add Background and Foreground color properties. (4a1a63d4) · Commits · Bruce Steers / gambas · GitLab

If not you could put the modified balloon class files in a project (like we did with Message) and voilla , custom colours not just the generic tooltip ones

You are getting good at this Bruce  

Bruce I think you should apply to be on the Gambas development team  

In the latest commit
Tooltip and link properties of the Color class are now writable. Fix 'Key.Backspace' property name. (2c2b7d56) · Commits · Gambas / gambas · GitLab

Color.TooltipBackground and Color.TooltipForeground are now writeable

Ironically it does not affect tooltips but if you set the colours Balloon does use them