setBackgroundRole of parent without affecting children

[TEAmerc]

I have a QMainWindow with several other widgets contained within it (a QTableView, a QPixmap , a QGroupBox etc.) and I want to be able to change the background color of the parent widget without also changing the background color of its children such as the QTableView so that the window background is a different color, but the background of the table, groupbox, and other widgets beneath it remain with the default look.

Is there any way to do this as currently the children all inherit the backgroundrole of the parent.

I think it's probably unnecessary, but just in case, my current code to change the background color is below:



QPalette mainPalette = palette();
mainPalette.setColor(backgroundRole(), QColor(1, 2, 3));
setPalette(mainPalette);
setAutoFillBackground(true);

[wysota]

You could explicitly set a color for the role you are going to change for immediate children of the widget you are going to modify before actually modifying the palette. You would then effectively cut off inheriting the color down the hierarchy.

[TEAmerc]

This worked, Thanks!