[SOLVED] Qt stylesheets: border on a QGLWidget

tilsitt

Hi,

I would like to add a border to a QGLWidget derived class when it has the focus. I am using the following code:

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void myGLWidget::focusInEvent(QFocusEvent* _event)
{
QGLWidget::focusInEvent(event);
setStyleSheet("border: solid 5px red");
}

void myGLWidget::focusOutEvent(QFocusEvent* _event)
{
QGLWidget::focusOutEvent(event);
setStyleSheet("border: none;");
}
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As a result, there is no border drawn when the widget takes focus (I added console outputs inside the methods to check if I pass through them). Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?

frederik

Since the QGLWidget does not use QStyle the style sheet does not work.
I would suggest putting your QGWidget into a normal QWidget and set the style sheet on that one.
You can use event filters to get notified about the focus events.

tilsitt

Well, thanks for the answer. I solved the problem using another way. I used a QPainter to draw the border inside glDraw():

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myGLWidget::myGLWidget()
{
// prevent the widget from being cleared when beginning the QPainter
setAutoFillBackground(false);

setAutoBufferSwap(false);

}

void myGLWidget::glDraw()
{
QGLWidget::glDraw();

if(hasFocus())
{
    QPainter painter(this);

    QPen pen(Qt::yellow, 4);
    painter.setPen(pen);

    painter.drawRect(0, 0, width(), height());
}

swapBuffers();

}
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