QLabel with border color different of the text color

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hoffhoff

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Monday, October 10th 2011, 9:26pm

QLabel with border color different of the text color

Hello,
I have a class called TCalendarButton and it inherits from QLabel. The idea of this class is to represent the days of a calendar. So, on holidays, the text is supposed to be red, but when the number is pressed a green border around the number is supposed to be shown.

The border is created using this:

	Source code
1	setFrameStyle( Box \| Plain );

It is working for the normal days, but for the holidays, when I do:

	Source code
1 2 3	QPalette palet; palet.setColor( QPalette::WindowText, Qt::red ); setPalette( palet );

The border of this number becomes red too. I've tried some different roles in palette's setColor but I couln't find a way to make the boarder color to be different of the text color.

I could change the text color using the:

	Source code
1	<font color=...></font>

In the text, but I wouldn't like to change the text of the label, as the code is too big and I'm affraid of side effects. I've thought about rewriting the "text()" function to remove the <font> tag, but the QLabel's "text()" is not virtual.

Is there an easy way to make the text color and the font color differents for this situation?

Thanks,
Renan Greinert

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slevon

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Location: Germany

Occupation: electrical engineer

Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 8:04am

Hi,
have a look at the Qt-Stylesheets. It's much more powerful and way easier than Palettes.

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/stylesheet.html

Hope this helps,
slevon

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hoffhoff

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Location: Brazil

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Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 2:34pm

Thank you slevon!

I didn't find a way to change the text color via StyleSheet. I've tried:

setStyleSheet("text: red;");

but it didn't work.

Anyway, I could solve my problem by doing:

	Source code
1 2 3 4 5 6	QPalette palet; palet.setColor( QPalette::WindowText, textColor ); setPalette( palet ); QString tmplt = tr("border: 1px solid %1;"); setStyleSheet( tmplt.arg( borderColor.name()) );

Thanks again,
Renan

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slevon

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Location: Germany

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Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 3:03pm

Hi,
nice if you have a working solution, but wouldn't it be easier to simply call:

	Source code
1 2	//sets the Text to green and the border to red setStyleSheet("color: rgb(0,255,0) ; border: 1px solid #ff0000 ;");

Where "color" sets the text, and "border" sets the border.
Like you would do in a css-file you can use the "#rrggbb" or the rgb(r,g,b) syntax, where the first one is more common.

Or if you want to use a QColor