[Qt-interest] combo box styles

[Duane Hebert]

"Andre Somers" <andre at familiesomers.nl> wrote in message news:4C8000D8.5010708 at familiesomers.nl...
>  Op 2-9-2010 21:31, Duane Hebert schreef:
>> "Andre Somers"<andre at familiesomers.nl>  wrote in message news:4C7FFB03.9090906 at familiesomers.nl...
>>>   Op 2-9-2010 21:27, Duane Hebert schreef:
>>>> "Andre Somers"<andre at familiesomers.nl>   wrote in message news:4C7FF58A.7010904 at familiesomers.nl...
>>>>>    Op 2-9-2010 18:33, Duane Hebert schreef:
>>>>>> I have a touch screen app and I want to set the style of the scroll up and scroll down arrows of the combo
>>>>>> box.  The ones that appear when the drop down is shown and the contents exceed the size.  I need to make them
>>>>>> larger.  But which style are these?
>>>>> Look into QApplication::setGlobalStrut(). It defines the minimum size for widgets that users interact with.
>>>> Thanks André but it seems to work with almost everything except the up/down arrows in the drop down
>>>> for the combo box.  It does work for the arrows in the initial combo box but I'm talking about the
>>>> arrows at the top and bottom of the contents of the combo box.
>>> Sounds like a bug in Qt to me. It is supposed to work for *all* controls.
>> Actually, it doesn't work for the up/down on the main combo box.  But it does work for the combo box itself.
>> It works for scroll bar buttons etc. so I could have used that instead of style sheets to achieve that.
>> Maybe it's been fixed on a later version.  I'm using 4.5.1.
> Actually, I think it is just plain broken.
> I just tried it with 4.6.2, and there are problems galore. I set a big strut (30,30), and on my test form the spin box becomes 
> useless (the down button doesn't fit in the spin box anymore), the up and down arrows for the list in a combo box only use the 
> width, while the down button for an editable combo box (to drop the list down) only uses the height. The buttons on a horizontal 
> scroll bar are also too narrow.
>
> The method is not even marked as depreciated, but I guess it is now simply being ignored in all the style and style sheet 
> violence. I doubt any QML widget even looks at at...
>
> Even if the functionality has been superseded by other methods, it is still a bug that it does not work properly. Issues with it 
> should at least be noted in the documentation.

Well thanks for the attempt.

I guess now I'm back to asking how to handle this with
style sheets.  I can make them work for the QComboBox itself.  I can change some of the
values using QComboBox QAbstractItemView as shown in the docs.  But I can't seem to
get anything to work with the up and down buttons.