<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p>You've understanding it fine. But the colon in the filename means, it's a complied-in resource. While you develop/test, I would suggest taking the colon out and using the file system. </p>
<p>All you have to do without using  style sheets is subclass QTextEdit then re implement draw, draw your water mark, then cal the base class paint via QTextEdit::paintEvent()<br><br><br></p>
<p>-J</p>
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                            graham labdon <graham.labdon@hotmail.co.uk>;                            <br>
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                            [Interest] QTextEdit and Style sheets                            <br>
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Hi<br>I am trying to set a background image on a QTextEdit using setStyleSheet -<br><br><span style="color:#800000;">textEdit</span><span style="color:#000000;">-></span>setStyleSheet<span style="color:#000000;">(</span><span style="color:#800080;">QString</span><span style="color:#000000;">::</span>fromUtf8<span style="color:#000000;">(</span><span style="color:#008000;">"background-image:</span><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"> </span><span style="color:#008000;">url(:/images/Chrysanthemum.png);background-attachment:</span><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"> </span><span style="color:#008000;">fixed"</span><span style="color:#000000;">));</span><br><br>However, this doe not work.<br><br>Am i misunderstanding the documentation or is it not possible?<br><br>Thanks<br>                                         </div></td>
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