website of suggested styles for widgets

[valerianst]

Hi there guys,

do you know if exist a website or any type of resource of nice text to input in the setStyleSheet method?

IIt would be nice something like: preview-image-of-the-widget ---------> code


I hope it exists!

Cheers!

[wysota]

Could you elaborate what you mean? What is "preview-image-of-the-widget"?

[valerianst]

Could you elaborate what you mean? What is "preview-image-of-the-widget"?

Sure!

I mean something like: (A) --> (B)

where (A) is the image of the widget:
________________
|_my___button____|


and (B) is the code necessary to obtain that result:

for instance:



mywidget->setStyleSheet("color: blue;"
"background-color: yellow;"
"selection-color: yellow;"
"selection-background-color: blue;");



If no site of this type exists, it would be nice to know at least the exact styles of the Qt widgets. I haven't found this information in the wiki :(

[wysota]

Sure!

I mean something like: (A) --> (B)

where (A) is the image of the widget:
________________
|_my___button____|


and (B) is the code necessary to obtain that result:

for instance:



mywidget->setStyleSheet("color: blue;"
"background-color: yellow;"
"selection-color: yellow;"
"selection-background-color: blue;");


There are a lot of CSS examples in the Web.




If no site of this type exists, it would be nice to know at least the exact styles of the Qt widgets. I haven't found this information in the wiki :(
Style Sheets Reference

[valerianst]

There are a lot of CSS examples in the Web.




Style Sheets Reference

Hi, thank you for the links.

Unfortunately, it's not what I was looking for.. that link doesn't show the exact styles of the Qt widgets but only some example..

About the CSS, yep.. you're right.. but as you said they are.. CSS. Thank you anyway :)

[wysota]

Qt doesn't use stylesheets to draw its controls, so you won't see such definition.

[valerianst]

Qt doesn't use stylesheets to draw its controls, so you won't see such definition.

Ok, can I ask you what does it use? is there any change to get the information from which I can create a correspondent stylesheet?

[wysota]

Ok, can I ask you what does it use?
It uses QStyle API that may perform direct painting calls or delegate drawing to the system.


is there any change to get the information from which I can create a correspondent stylesheet?
I don't understand your question. If you are asking whether you can precisely mimic the default look using stylesheets then no, you can't.

[valerianst]

It uses QStyle API that may perform direct painting calls or delegate drawing to the system.


I don't understand your question. If you are asking whether you can precisely mimic the default look using stylesheets then no, you can't.

Yes I was asking that.. it's very strange that I can't do it.. it should be possible using the right definition. Why can't I?

[wysota]

Why can't I?
Because expressiveness of stylesheets is not big enough to handle everything Qt draws. And in addition to that system drawn styles can have themes which simply can't be mimicked by a static style sheet.

[valerianst]

Ok I understand. Thank you very much for all your explanations!