Microsoft-ui-xaml: Tooltip shadow should be applied at 16px not 32px
Describe the bug
As described in our Z-depth and shadow doc, tooltip should be applying shadow at 16pt not at 32pt. The shadow is overly heavy today and it is not per intended design.
chigy
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ToolTip calls the elevation helper without setting a depth, giving it the default of 32. There's no way to give a value of 16 today through that API (it takes a uint depth, where 1 starts at 32), but it'd be easy to mod to get a different value. Regardless, this will require WinUI as the elevation calls in all those controls are hard coded into the control logic, not themeable.
chrisglein
on 3 Oct 2019
When Tooltip is added to the repo, you may want to consider liasing with the Edge, Win32 Shell, and Office teams, and try to get a consistent look for ToolTips across apps.
mdtauk
on 3 Oct 2019
any updates on this? would be neat if this could make it to v2.5 :)
Poopooracoocoo
on 11 Sep 2020
Unfortunately almost all of the Tooltip code still sits in the OS right now, which means many changes to tooltip, including this issue, can only be done inside the OS or with WinUI 3. That's also why it is marked as "needs-winui-3".
chingucoding
on 11 Sep 2020
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ToolTip calls the elevation helper without setting a depth, giving it the default of 32. There's no way to give a value of 16 today through that API (it takes a uint depth, where 1 starts at 32), but it'd be easy to mod to get a different value. Regardless, this will require WinUI as the elevation calls in all those controls are hard coded into the control logic, not themeable.