How to change hover background and foreground color in eclipse?

Question

I am building a eclipse plugin with custom editor. I have implemented text hovering functionality in which user hover on some text then that text will be shown on tooltip like javadocs.

How can i change the tooltip background and foreground color programmatically?

Answer 1

If your ITextHover class also implements ITextHoverExtension you can provide the IInformationControlCreator in the getHoverControlCreator() method.

You can use a simple IInformationControlCreator which just returns an instance of DefaultInformationControl as the information control. DefaultInformationControl has setForegroundColor and setBackgroundColor methods.