[Qt-interest] Preferred method of making embedded linux application themable ?

[Pritam Ghanghas]

Hi

Anybody interested in sharing some experience on this topic.
And do I write bad/offending mails. I dont seem to get anyone's
attention.


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Thanks,
Pritam


On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 20:34 +0530, Pritam Ghanghas wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What is preferred way of theming a embedded Linux application.
> As far as I have read and understood, one has to use a combination of
> custom/stock QStyle and QPalette. Then there are stylesheets as well. 
> But according to docs stylesheets wont work for custom styles.
> 
> Is this the right approach?
> 
> And what happens when I switch the palette and/or style while
> application is running. 
> Will all the widgets/items in my application redraw themselves
> automatically or I will have to do that manually.
> I can see a event QEvent::StyleChange. Will it be delivered to every
> widget in my application on styleChange?
> 
> I searched on google for "theming qt applications",  a lot of links came
> up but most of them were kde and gtk related  except for this one.
> http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/11/27/theming-qt-for-fun-and-profit/ . But till now I have stayed away from created .ui files for UI design, 
> that apporach didnt seem to fit my requirements.  
> 
> I think this is a question, a lot of Qters would have faced and
> researched about. if somebody can give me a few pointer on this, it will
> be very helpful.
> 
> 



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