Semi-transparent QTextEdit

[danielbsig]

Hi all,

I've been trying to get a QTextEdit control to draw its background semi-transparently, but to no avail. I've lost count on the number of different methods I've tried:

• setting the palette, both to the QTextEdit control itself, and to the viewport() (i.e. a Palette with colors for both QPalette::Base and QPalette::Background set to RGBA colors)
• calling control->setStyleSheet with background set to "none"
• this method:
  @ control->setAttribute( Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground, true );

@

• and this:
  @control->viewport()->setAutoFillBackground(false);
  @

• and finally this:
  @QGraphicsOpacityEffect* effect = new QGraphicsOpacityEffect( control );
  effect->setOpacity( 0.75 );
  control->setGraphicsEffect( effect );
  @

• and of course a number of combinations of some or all of these methods

but nothing works.

A thing to note is that I'm NOT adding this control to a layout, since it is absolutely positioned on top of other windows.

I'm currently on page 3 in the Google search, will continue to go deeper.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Daniel

[b1gsnak3]

you have to set your window flag for you QTextEdit to Qt::FramelessWindowHint so it can work with the first option