QAction color in toolbar

[jmsbc]

Hi, I have several buttons in my application's toolbar added with addAction(QAction * action). I was wondering how to change their color when hovered, and also another color when clicked.

Thanks

[scascio]

If you means change the icon displayed on the toolbar, you can call QAction::setIcon in response of the hovered() and toggled(bool checked) signals

[jmsbc]

Nope, I mean the background color of the button. I tried setting the pushbutton hover color:


this->setStyleSheet("QPushButton:hover {background-color:white}");
this->setStyleSheet("QPushButton:!hover { background-color: lightgray }");


But it does not apply to the QAction buttons in the toolbar. How do I change these colors? Thanks

[KL-7]

You should use QToolButton stylesheet instead of QPushButton ;)
Another thing is that setStyleSheet method overwrite widget's stylesheet, so what you need is smth like that

this->setStyleSheet("QToolButton:hover {background-color:blue} QToolButton:!hover { background-color: lightgray }");

And if it's not the only usage of setStyleSheet in your app you should not overwrite stylesheet, but get it and append your new styles.