3 State QPushbutton (solved)

[houmingc]

I understood Qt Qpushbutton have 2 state: click and unclick. Is it possible to have additional state in QPushbutton?

How to achieve the third state?

[SGaist]

Hi,

Do you mean something like QCheckBox's tristate property ?

[houmingc]

How can this apply to qpushbutton?

[SGaist]

You would need to create your own button from QAbstractButton and take some inspiration from QCheckBox. But first, why do you need a tristate push button ? It's not something that follows known guidelines

[houmingc]

Many thanks for your expertise

[Jakob]

@houmingc Even easier would be to make use of the nextCheckState() function. It allows you to create any number of states, see http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qabstractbutton.html#nextCheckState

[SGaist]

@Jakob that's what is used for QCheckBox internally, it's a good example on how to use nextCheckState