[Qt-interest] Generating icons at runtime

[Robert Hairgrove]

I have a list of students which sign up for varying lesson times 
depending on their enrollment status. What I would like to do is add a 
colored icon to the list displaying a text abbreviation over a square 
solid-color background. The users should be able to pick any colors they 
want for the different backgrounds, and different two- or three-letter 
text abbreviations (in black) for the enrollment status depending on the 
users' needs.

What would be the best way to go about this with QPixmap, QIcon et al.? 
I assume one would need to create a new QPixmap object for the 
background with an appropriate fill color (e.g. 32x32 pixels), then call 
setMask() with a 1-color (indexed) bitmap having a transparent background.

Is it that simple? I've never worked much with QPixmap before, although 
i do have some experience using Windows API functions such as BitBlt(). 
But it should be a Qt solution at the end of the day.

Thanks!