This feels great. This post is an eight year old dream come true – I have always wanted to write an article titled “… for fun and profit” ever since I read the amazing phrack article . Qt Style Sheets makes it possible to style Qt widgets, we all know that. But, what if some […]
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 […]
Naren Karattup (our product manager) and I did a webinar two weeks back titled “Bringing C++ to Vista: Leveraging Your C++ Code-Base to Create Native Windows® Vista™ Applications”. If you missed it, you can now see it offline here. From the webcast link “We recommend the following operating systems: Windows XP SP2, and Mac OS […]
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 […]