[Qt-interest] Bold fonts

[John McClurkin]

Oliver Demetz wrote:
> Point size is 14.
> I do not have any problem with the normal fonts, they are displayed as 
> they should.
> Also, if I set the font-weight to bold generally, I get bolf text as 
> desired. The problem lies in switching between bold and normal fonts.
> 
> 
> Donal O'Connor schrieb:
>> What point size is the text on your button because as far as I know if 
>> it less than 7, then bold does not render?
>>
>> Not sure, but could possibly be the problem.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Oliver Demetz 
>> <forenbeitraege at oliverdemetz.de 
>> <mailto:forenbeitraege at oliverdemetz.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I'm afraid this question is too basic, but
>>     I can't get the following to work:
>>
>>     I have a button which is rendered as usual,
>>     with normal font. Now thare are situations,
>>     where I would like this button to have a *bold*
>>     font, eg. on hover, or if an associated action is
>>     active.
>>
>>     For the hover-effect, I tried to use stylesheets:
>>
>>     QPushButton{
>>            font-weight:normal;
>>     }
>>
>>     QPushButton:hover {
>>            font-weight: bold;
>>     }
>>
>>     But no success.
>>
>>     For the activity indication of a button I have this
>>     piece of code:
>>
>>     if(m_mirror_button.text() == tr("Mirror"))
>>     {
>>            // ---active---
>>            m_mirror_button.setText(tr("Un-Mirror"));
>>            QFont f = m_mirror_button.font();
>>            f.setBold(true);
>>            m_mirror_button.setFont(f);
>>     }
>>     else
>>     {
>>            //---inactive---
>>            m_mirror_button.setText(tr("Mirror"));
>>            QFont f = m_mirror_button.font();
>>            f.setBold(false);
>>            m_mirror_button.setFont(f);
>>     }
>>
>>     but it also does not change anything.
>>
>>     Where is my mistake?
>>
>>     Thanks for your hint in advance.

Have you tried calling update() on the button?

>>
>>     Olli
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