How to make overlapping widgets opaque ?

[ada10]

I have a mainwindow displaying some icons in a listview. I have another custom widget, which displays some images in a gridview. When I instantiate the custom widget as a child of the mainwindow & make it visible, it is displayed on top of the listview, it overlaps the listview & the empty spaces in the widget dont hide the listview.

The image below explains the scenario. The space above the customwidget should also be hidden ( i.e the listview icons must not be displayed ).

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How to go about this ?

[nish]

i think you should make the background palette of your custom widget to some color.

[ada10]

Thanks; this seems to be the only solution available for this problem

[e8johan]

You could set the autoFillBackground flag to false as well. Widgets aren't really ment to be overlapping, so you are bound to run into issues when trying such things.