[Qt-interest] combo box styles

[Jan]

I really don't know which arrows you talk about

This is even available in Qt 4.3

QComboBox::down-arrow {
      image: url(/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/actions/1downarrow.png);
  }

Then there are "arrows" in the scrollbars ... That's it IMO

Jan




Am 02.09.2010 22:13, schrieb 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.
>
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