Greetings,

I want to be able to change the color of the statusBar message that appears in my QMainWindow object based upon the type of message; normal, warning, error...

The problem I need help with is that I'm also using the timer function of the statusBar. This means that if I change the palette of the statusBar and display the message, I must wait until the timer elapses to change the palette back.

For example, I display a warning message (forces a palette change to blue). If, after I show the message, I change the palette back, the palette switching happens so fast that the string never appears in the warning color.

Qt Code: 
  1. void MainWin::DisplayStatus( QString sStatus, QColor rgbColor, int duration )
  2. {
  3.     if ( !sStatus.isEmpty() )
  4.     {
  5.         QPalette palette;
  6.         palette.setColor( QPalette::WindowText, rgbColor );
  7.         statusBar()->setPalette( palette );
  8.         statusBar()->showMessage( sStatus, duration );
  9.  
  10.         // resets the palette before the message can be seen in the previous color
  11.         if ( rgbColor != COLOR_StatusNorm )
  12.         {
  13.             palette.setColor( QPalette::WindowText, COLOR_StatusNorm );
  14.             statusBar()->setPalette( palette );
  15.         }
  16.     }
  17. }
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If I don't reset the statusBar palette, all subsequent messages will use the warning color.

Most of the messages have a duration of 3-5 seconds so a Sleep() is not appropriate.

Does anyone have suggestions or am I trying to do something the statusBar was not intended for?