QScrollArea background color
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How can I keep the (background) color of a widget after it is placed inside QScrollArea?
The application contains only two background colors (defined by the system), and I would like to keep it that way. But, when I introduce a QScrollArea, everything inside it gets painted in colors that are completely different from the rest of the application, which destroys the look.
I tried setting the palette of the scroll area, setting its backgroundRole, and several other things I found on the internet, but nothing seems to work. All I can do is apply one of the three colors that QScrollArea offers, but they are completely different from what the rest of the application uses.Note: I don't want to play with styleSheets as I would have to do the same for every single widget inside the scroll area. All I would like to do is prevent the QScrollArea from changing the color of widgets inside it - just add the scroll bars and nothing else.
Thanks.
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Hi,
Can you post picture samples of what you are getting and what you are expecting ?
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I am not sure what the forum policy is when it comes to posting images, so here are the links:
Preferred look: http://s13.postimg.org/5pysdlppj/color_Good_resized.jpg
Obtained look: http://s16.postimg.org/6oh620o0l/color_Bad_resized.jpgObtained look: Look at the left half of the window, there are two vertical tabs called Chooser and Adjuster. It's a QTabWidget and both tabs are QFrame. In the picture, Chooser is the active tab and it contains checkboxes, combo boxes etc. I need horizontal scrolling here, so there is a QScrollArea there and, in this picture, it draws everything inside it in white (QPalette::Base). If I try QPalette::AlternateBase or QPalette::Window, the background becomes dark - either similar to the color of the inactive tab or even darker, both being very bad choices for different reasons. What I want is shown in the preferred look image, which is without QScrollArea.
I hope this helps.
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That's indeed a strange interaction. Can you reproduce that with a small set of widgets ?
Also why put them in QFrames ? A QGroupBox would be a better fit for that.
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That's indeed a strange interaction. Can you reproduce that with a small set of widgets ?
Also why put them in QFrames ? A QGroupBox would be a better fit for that.
I am not first to ask about this problem, but here it goes: http://s24.postimg.org/r6wo5opw5/scroll_Test.png
It is a QTabWidget whose tab is a QFrame, which has a QScrollArea inside. As you can see, It is darker in color than the background of its parent QFrame.
