Still need help: Best way to have application "skins"?

[wysota]

Mask the top level widget (window). Of course you need to calculate the mask first, but it shouldn't be hard.

[codeslicer]

I don't think this will work, because, the buttons at the bottom of the monitor will stretch. Take a look at that screenshot on page 2. But that's a nice idea, if I didn't have to worry about scaling, then that would have been the ideal solution.

I'm thinking of using QWidget->hide() on each of those image labels, what do you think, will that work?

Thanks for helping me out, my lack of explanation skills keeps requiring more and more solutions

[wysota]

I don't think this will work, because, the buttons at the bottom of the monitor will stretch.

Not necessarily. If you get the cuts right and combine it with setting the border size on each edge it might just work.

[codeslicer]

Not necessarily. If you get the cuts right and combine it with setting the border size on each edge it might just work.

The form resizes based on its contents, so I can't have fixed size.

[wysota]

Read again how border-image works. Pay special attention to the parameters. Read about border-width as well.

[codeslicer]

Yes, I read it. It's just that the buttons and stand will stretch to the right and left, horizontally. Oh well, the stretch probably won't be more than a few pixels.

To understand better, attached is the ui form + resources...

Please do not copy/use those images in your applications (Although I doubt you will need to)

[codeslicer]

*Bump*

Border image doesn't have a middle image that doesn't stretch right?

[wysota]

I think it does. But if it doesn't work, use background-image.