QPlainTextEdit selection color?

[jajdoo]

kind of a dumb question..

the default color of selected text (when dragging the mouse over text) is not to my liking (its almost invisible)
how can i change the default color?

[tbscope]

You can set a style sheet:

QTextEdit { selection-background-color: darkblue }

QTextEdit { selection-background-color: darkblue }

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[jajdoo]

how can i do it from within the code?
( im really new to qt )

edit:
never mind, found it

[Lykurg]

You can use QWidget::setStyleSheet(). But for such a simple task I'd prefer using QPalette. Assuming textEdit is a pointer to your editor:

QPalette p = textEdit->palette();
p.setColor(QPalette::Highlight, QColor(/*what ever you want*/);
p.setColor(QPalette::HighlightedText, QColor(/*what ever you want*/);
textEdit->setPalette(p);

QPalette p = textEdit->palette();
p.setColor(QPalette::Highlight, QColor(/*what ever you want*/);
p.setColor(QPalette::HighlightedText, QColor(/*what ever you want*/);
textEdit->setPalette(p);

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