Problem with QGLWidget paint events in Qt 4.6

[Wali]

I recently updated my Qt 4.3 to 4.6. With that said, in my QGLWidget sub class I reimplemented the paint event where a background brush was drawn using QPainter. Then I would call my OpenGL calls to draw over the background. This worked perfectly in earlier versions of Qt, but 4.6 seems to just draw over my OpenGL graphics.

I understand that the OpenGL paint system has been overhauled in this release. But I really need this functionality to work in this version and any future releases. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Here is a snippet of my code.

class gfx : public QGLWidget
{
    Q_OBJECT
/* code */
protected:
    void paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event);
/* more code */
};
 
static void drawBackGround(QPainter *painter)
{
    painter->setPen(Qt::NoPen);
    painter->setBrush(mBackground);  /* some brush for my background */
    painter->drawRect(rect());
}
void gfx::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
{
    Q_UNUSED(event)
    QPainter painter(this);
 
    drawBackGround(&painter);
 
    draw();  // openGL calls
    event->setAccepted(true);
}

class gfx : public QGLWidget
{
    Q_OBJECT
/* code */
protected:
    void paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event);
/* more code */
};

static void drawBackGround(QPainter *painter)
{
    painter->setPen(Qt::NoPen);
    painter->setBrush(mBackground);  /* some brush for my background */
    painter->drawRect(rect());
}
void gfx::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
{
    Q_UNUSED(event)
    QPainter painter(this);

    drawBackGround(&painter);

    draw();  // openGL calls
    event->setAccepted(true);
}

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[Grimlock]

Have You tried using void QGLWidget::qglClearColor ( constQColor& c) const