Problem with QHeaderView pseudo-states and stylesheets

[marwyn]

Hi !
I'm currently working on a QHeaderView, styling it with a stylesheet. I'm almost done, i just can't find the way to set a background-color to the QHeader::section used for sorting...

In the Qt doc (here), I found this example:

QHeaderView::section:checked
 {
     background-color: red;
 }

QHeaderView::section:checked
 {
     background-color: red;
 }

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I tried it but the :checked pseudo-state does not seem to do anything.
What does it do ??
Is there a way to achieve my goal ?

Thanks,
Marwyn

[marwyn]

Still stuck with my problem...

[d_stranz]

It doesn't look like the style sheet supports a different background color for the sort section. The ":checked" pseudo-state has nothing to do with sorting as far as I can tell. The only features available in the style sheet concerning sorting are the ::up-arrow and ::down-arrow.

If you override the QHeaderView:: paintSection() method, you can test to see if the logicalSection argument matches the sortIndicatorSection() and set a different background brush.

What you want to do is non-standard behaviour for tables. In general, the standard approach is to use the sort indicator to show which column is the sort column and in which direction it is sorted.

[marwyn]

mhhh
I wanted to avoid overriding the paintSection()... But if this is the only way i guess I have no choice.

Thx anyway ^^

PS: still don't know what ":checked" do...