[PySide] fading a widget on and off

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2013-10-22 01:29, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
> once again I'm looking for a nudge in the right direction please:
>
> I'd like to be able to fade a widget on and off (based on the state of a
> checkbox), and am wondering if I should write a custom paintEvent that
> renders the widget as a pixmap at the respective transparency or if I
> should look into QState and QStateMachine instead?! I have never used
> states but it sounds like that will enable me to subsequently use
> QtCore.QPropertyAnimation on a custom property (like opacity), is that
> correct?

So... I have a widget floating around that does something similar. 
However, the least broken way I was able to find to do this is to render 
the widget background, by telling the top level widget to render itself, 
clipped to the region of your widget, into a pixmap, then painting your 
widget as normal, and lastly overpainting the background pixmap at the 
desired opacity.

If you render your own widget into a pixmap, IME it doesn't render the 
same as rendering on-screen (specifically I recall that text sub-pixel 
antialiasing isn't used).

You can probably get away with doing the top level widget render only 
once, when you start the transition.

That said, I wonder what setting CSS 'opacity' on a widget does... (not 
sure it is supported, however).

You should be able to use QAnimation straight up to do the fade. I don't 
see how QStateMachine would be useful (other than as gratuitous 
overkill, maybe) here.

-- 
Matthew