How to change some colors in a QPlainTextEdit

[aarelovich]

Hi:

I'm creating one of those editors that provide the fonts and colors cutomization functionality. the editor uses as a basis the QPlainTextEdit Class. However I can't find in the documentation how to change the background color of the QPlainTextEdit and the color of the letters. I know these are defined by the OS but isn't there any way to modify them?

Thanks for any answers.

[faldzip]

Use QPalette:

QPalette p = ui->plainTextEdit->palette();
p.setColor(QPalette::Base, Qt::red);
p.setColor(QPalette::Text, Qt::white);
ui->plainTextEdit->setPalette(p);

QPalette p = ui->plainTextEdit->palette();
p.setColor(QPalette::Base, Qt::red);
p.setColor(QPalette::Text, Qt::white);
ui->plainTextEdit->setPalette(p);

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[aarelovich]

Thank you so very much. I'll try that tomorrow.