Make a pushbutton flat but on cursor above it to show that it is a button ?

[hakermania]

When you make button flat, the border goes away, how can I have this border on mouse above button (so as to show better that it is a button) A good example is VLC preferences: it has flat buttons that show you that hey are buttons by showing their border every time your mouse goes above them.

Thx in advance for any replies

[Lykurg]

Subclass QPushButton and write your own paint event using QStylePainter. To detect if the mouse is currently over the icon, you can reimp enter and leave event or you can simply use QWidget::underMouse().

[tbscope]

Bonus tip: VLC is opensource and written with Qt

[hakermania]

I am trying to figure out how to work with the mouseevent
.h

protected:
    void mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *);

protected:
    void mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *);

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.cpp:

void MainWindow::mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *){
    if (ui->pushButton->underMouse())
            cout << "hello\n";
}

void MainWindow::mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *){
    if (ui->pushButton->underMouse())
            cout << "hello\n";
}

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It doesn't work though.. I will check vlc's source as well...

[tbscope]

I am trying to figure out how to work with the mouseevent
...
It doesn't work though.

The correct way to do this (Object Oriented that is), is to subclass QPushButton and implement the mouse move event function like Lykurg already said.
Use the mouse event for the mouse details.

[norobro]

You can achieve this using Style Sheets and the ":hover" pseudo-state.