[Qt-interest] palette behaving in a strange manner.

[Pritam Ghanghas]

Hi,

Thank you. 
It works. I figured out the problem with old approach also. 
Cleanlooks style was polishing my palette.


-- 
Thanks,
Pritam


On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 22:51 +0530, sarvesh saran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> set the palette to the list view not the application 
> 
> 
> view.setPalette(pal); instead of app.setPalette(pal).
> 
> 
> it should work now.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Sarvesh
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Pritam Ghanghas
> <pritam_ghanghas at infosys.com> wrote:
>         Hi
>         
>         I am trying to set black color for QPalette::HighlightedText.
>         and
>         setting a gradient for QPalette::Highlight. As soon as I set
>         black for
>         HighlightedText, the Highlight gradient is drawn as black in
>         listview.
>         
>         The behaviour is correct only for a few color values of
>         HighligtedText.
>         
>         Here is a self contained example:
>         
>         #include <QtGui>
>         
>         int main(int argc, char **argv)
>         {
>            QApplication app(argc, argv);
>         
>            QPalette pal = app.palette();
>         
>            pal.setCurrentColorGroup(QPalette::Normal);
>            QLinearGradient hiGradient(0.5, 0, 0.5, 1);
>         
>          hiGradient.setCoordinateMode(QGradient::ObjectBoundingMode);
>            hiGradient.setColorAt(0, QColor("#36d3ff"));
>            hiGradient.setColorAt(1, QColor("#048dad"));
>            pal.setBrush(QPalette::Highlight, QBrush(hiGradient));
>            pal.setColor(QPalette::HighlightedText, Qt::black);
>         
>            app.setPalette(pal);
>         
>            app.setStyle(new QCleanlooksStyle);
>         
>            QStringList stringList;
>            stringList<<"a"<<"b"<<"c";
>         
>            QStringListModel model(stringList);
>         
>            QListView view;
>            view.setModel(&model);
>            view.show();
>         
>            return app.exec();
>         }
>         
>         change the HighlightedText color to Qt::white or yellow it
>         will work
>         fine. Change it to red or black it wont. There are other
>         colors also for
>         which it works or doesn't work. I am unable to understand how
>         it is
>         deciding? I tried manually getting the highlight brush and its
>         right.
>         So there is no corruption in palette.
>         
>         
>         --
>         Thanks,
>         Pritam
>         
>         
>         
>         
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