[Qt-interest] Bold fonts

[Tony Rietwyk]

Hi Oliver, 

Have a look at changing the palette (probably button text role), instead of
the font. 

Or, try setting the style sheet property directly on the button. 

Regards, 

> 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.
> 
> Olli