How to remove the dotted rectangle of selection

[moosa]

Does this hold for QT 4.6? Meaning we cannot get rid of the dotted line in QT 4.6?

[Lykurg]

You can, and the forum is full of post related to that issue! Use you own delegate, reimplement the paint method and alter option (QStyleOptionViewItem) by removing the desired state, e.g. QStyle::State_HasFocus.

[moosa]

Thanks for your prompt reply. I am using only setStyleSheet to decorate the QPushButton objects as follows:

setStyleSheet("QPushButton         {background-color: qlineargradient(spread:pad, x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 255), stop:0.5 rgba(180, 180, 180, 255), stop:0.51 rgba(100, 100, 100, 255), stop:1 rgba(160, 160, 160, 255)); border-radius: 6px;padding: 2px; font: bold}"
                  "QPushButton::hover  {background-color: qlineargradient(spread:pad, x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 rgba(200, 255, 200, 255), stop:0.5 rgba(141, 180, 141, 255), stop:0.51 rgba(78,  100,  78, 255), stop:1 rgba(125, 160, 125, 255));}"
                  "QPushButton::pressed{background-color: qlineargradient(spread:pad, x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 rgba(125, 160, 125, 255), stop:0.5 rgba(78,  100,  78, 255), stop:0.51 rgba(141, 180, 141, 255), stop:1 rgba(200, 255, 200, 255));}");

setStyleSheet("QPushButton         {background-color: qlineargradient(spread:pad, x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 255), stop:0.5 rgba(180, 180, 180, 255), stop:0.51 rgba(100, 100, 100, 255), stop:1 rgba(160, 160, 160, 255)); border-radius: 6px;padding: 2px; font: bold}"
                  "QPushButton::hover  {background-color: qlineargradient(spread:pad, x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 rgba(200, 255, 200, 255), stop:0.5 rgba(141, 180, 141, 255), stop:0.51 rgba(78,  100,  78, 255), stop:1 rgba(125, 160, 125, 255));}"
                  "QPushButton::pressed{background-color: qlineargradient(spread:pad, x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 rgba(125, 160, 125, 255), stop:0.5 rgba(78,  100,  78, 255), stop:0.51 rgba(141, 180, 141, 255), stop:1 rgba(200, 255, 200, 255));}");

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I just need to drop the dotted line when push button widget is selected. Is there a clean way I can use? If you can supply a tiny sample code or a short explanation it would be great.
Thanks in advance

[Lykurg]

As far as I know, there is no way to avoid that dotted rect using style sheets. You have to subclass your button and overwrite the paint event and do the drawing yourself. Use QStylePainter::drawPrimitive() with the right parameters.