[Qt-interest] making QWidget transparent

[David Boddie]

Keshava Krishna wrote:

> is there any way to make widget transparent?
> 
> suppose for example
> if there is a QTextEdit over a QImage and QTextEdit is transparent, then
> the contents of QImage must be partially visible through QTextEdit...

Set the Base role of the QTextEdit's palette to Qt::transparent. Something
like this should work:

  QPalette palette;
  palette.setColor(QPalette::Base, QColor(red, green, blue, alpha));
  textEdit.setPalette(palette);

David
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David Boddie
Senior Technical Writer
Nokia, Qt Software