[Qt-interest] Setting the background color of a tab

[Jake Colman]

All I need (it sounds like it _should_ be simple) is, for a given tab
index, specify the background color based on certain runtime
conditions.  I have no problems subclassing specific Qt classes if
that's what's required.  Can you give me some more details as to how I
should go about doing this?

>>>>> "JG" == Jonas Gehring <jonas.gehring at boolsoft.org> writes:

   JG> On 08/04/2011 12:13 AM, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
   >> Yes, CSS updates at runtime...

   JG> True, but I'm afraid you can't explicitly set the background
   JG> color of tab i. According to the documentation at
   JG> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/stylesheet-reference.html#qtabbar-widget
   JG> , you can only manipulate a few specific tabs using style sheets
   JG> (:first, :last, ...).

   JG> You can reimplement QTabBar::paintEvent() and modify the
   JG> QStyleOptionTabV3 structure, but you've got to be careful not to
   JG> mess up with desktop integration.

   JG> - Jonas

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   >> Behalf Of Jake Colman
   >> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:04 PM
   >> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
   >> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Setting the background color of a tab
   >> 
   >> 
   >> 
   >> I need to set it on the fly at runtime as things change.  And I need
   >> different tabs to have different background colors.  Can all that be
   >> done via CSS?
   >> 
   >> 
   >>>>>>> "JF" == Jesus Fernandez <jsfdez at gmail.com> writes:
   >> 
   JF> You can set with CSS the background-color of QTabWiget.
   >> 
   JF> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 21:52, Jake Colman <colman at ppllc.com>
   >> wrote:
   >> 
   >> >> 
   >> >> Is it possible to set the background color of a tab?  Given a
   >> >> QTabBar one can set the text color.  But can one set the
   >> >> background?
   >> >> 
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