It all started as a small feature request – Adding style sheet support for Item views. I quickly found out that our default delegate, QItemDelegate, doesn’t use QStyle the way it is supposed to. Jens had faced the same problem when trying to provide native look and feel for Vista and ended up writing his […]
So here is more dramatic news following the Qtopia Phone is completely GPL announcement. A couple of years back, we made a big move by Open Sourcing Qt for Windows. The Open Source edition of Qt/Windows supported only MinGW (and MinGW/MSYS starting Qt 4.3). The MSVC Makefile, project generator and the Integration was available only […]
After the mega feature enhancements that we added to Style Sheet in 4.3, we have been getting an awful lot of support requests and mails asking for examples to do all sorts of stuff. As a direct consequence, I have added tons of new documentation. What’s cool is that there is a separate example for […]
We just released 4.3.1, get it here. We try to do a patch release every 1.5 months or so. This time around, given that most developers disappeared for summer vacation, getting 4.3.1 out was quite a challenge. But there, we/2 did it But really, this post is just an excuse to show the picture of […]
QSlider I have been avoiding QSlider for sometime now. Sliding the QSlider would have been straightforward if the code was correct . You need this teeny weeny patch against 4.3 (If you are using a week old 4.3 snapshot, you are good). Comments inline. QSlider::groove:horizontal { border: 1px solid #999999; height: 8px; /* the groove […]
Today we will look at the styling of one of the most complex widgets (when it comes to styling) in Qt – The QTabWidget. Fasten your seat belts so you don’t get blown away Comments inline. QTabWidget::pane { /* The tab widget frame */ border-top: 2px solid #C2C7CB; } QTabWidget::tab-bar { left: 5px; /* move […]
Qt 4.3 Style Sheets, as you most likely know, introduces styling of most widgets. The documentation is a quite silent when it comes to providing “style templates” – templates that you can just copy/paste and get started with styling the widget. Today, I started creating templates for QProgressBar and QScrollBar. All this will become a […]
It looks like people have taken a deep liking to having line edits with a clear button. Like the one Aaron made. Since many seem to have missed that post, here’s my take on a QLineEdit with a clear button. lineedit.h lineedit.cpp The code is fairly trivial. So, I won’t bother explaining. The clear button […]
Since I will be posting lot of Style sheets, I figured this is about the right time to point out that Qt 4.3 Designer has a built-in CSS Syntax validator and highlighter. Just right click on any widget and “Edit Stylesheet…”. (screenshot here.) Background Qt 4.3 introduces support for background images in any QAbstractScrollArea derivative. […]
There’s been a tremendous amount of action in the Qt Style Sheet world for 4.3. I have been extremely busy managing the release, but now with 4.3.0 out, I have all the time to blog about the Style Sheet features we have added for 4.3 . To start with, have you noticed Style Sheet documentation […]