Changing colors and textures?

[Dumbledore]

Hello again,

I think I've got the hang of QT. At least I'm finding I really enjoy working with it. I gave the trial version a go this morning (the one that integrates itself into Visual Studio) and I thought it was very handsome indeed. As a Software Engineering Student, I would be willing to pay $50 bucks or so for it, but since it's $3000 I guess that's completely out of the question. Too bad.

Anyways, I was wondering what the easiest way is to change the look and feel of the GUI. I'm sick of the bland, gray, ugly default.

I'm also worried about how to get the returnPressed() method that comes (conveniently) with the Line Edit input widget, but is not included with the Text Edit input widget to work for the Text Edit widget.

Thanks in advance!

[wysota]

Take a look at these documents:
http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/qstyle.html
http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/widgets-styles.html
http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/stylesheets.html

[jacek]

I'm also worried about how to get the returnPressed() method that comes (conveniently) with the Line Edit input widget, but is not included with the Text Edit input widget to work for the Text Edit widget.

You can install an event filter on the text edit and make it emit such signal. See QObject::installEventFilter() and QObject::eventFilter(). Other solution is to subclass QTextEdit and reimplement QWidget::keyPressEvent().

P.S. Please, don't ask two unrelated questions in a single thread.

[Dumbledore]

Thanks I got it working now