Texturizing Widgets

I am trying to customize the look of my application; reading the documentation I have found this example, in which is shown how apply texture to pushbutton; what I need is apply texture to a QListView background (instead of a flat color) and to scrollbars: which primitive element should I use? Is it possible, in a qlistview, apply different textures for the normal state and the selected one?

Regards

I'd rather use style sheets nowadays.. ;)

Why? It seems simpler than the drawPrimitive() approach.

Thanks

Because using style sheets is way more simple:

• http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/stylesh...ractscrollarea
• http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/stylesh...ackground-prop

Well, you are right. Writing:

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listView->setStyleSheet("background-image: url(:images/notselected.png)");

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is very quick.

How about the selected state for a qlistview item? Reading through properties I have found selection-background-color; how can i apply a texture also to the selected state?

Thanks

Notice that selection-background-color takes a Brush. Furthermore, Brush can be a PaletteRole. So you could combine QPalette and style sheets to achieve that:

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QPalette palette = listView->palette();
palette.setBrush(QPalette::Highlight, QBrush(QPixmap("selection-background.png")));
listView->setPalette(palette);
listView->setStyleSheet("selection-color: palette(highlight)");

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I am worked on jpn's last code and this is the final implementation:

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GmcListView::GmcListView(QWidget *parent)
	:QListView(parent)
{
	setEditTriggers(QAbstractItemView::NoEditTriggers );
	QPalette palette = this->palette();
	palette.setBrush(QPalette::Highlight, QBrush(QPixmap(":images/selected.png")));
	palette.setBrush(QPalette::Base, QBrush(QPixmap(":images/notselected.png")));
	setPalette(palette);
}

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(no need to use setStyleSheet()).

Now I have customize the scrollbar look. I'd thought to create a QScrollBar widget with listView as parent thinking so to substitute the default one and working on it, but now my listView have two scrollbars...

Soon as I have a solution will post it.

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Originally Posted by jiveaxe

Now I have customize the scrollbar look. I'd thought to create a QScrollBar widget with listView as parent thinking so to substitute the default one and working on it, but now my listView have two scrollbars...

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There is no need to create new scroll bars. You can access the existing scrollbars via QAbstractScrollArea::horizontalScrollBar() and QAbstractScrollArea::verticalScrollBar(). Notice that there are quite a few "Customizing QScrollBar" examples: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/stylesh...ing-qscrollbar

Also, you can simply use style sheet selectors to apply the stylesheet to a certain scrollbar. For example a QScrollBar which is child of a QListView:

Code:

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QListView > QScrollBar

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