QColorDialog doesn't preview alpha
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When a
QColorDialogis opened with theShowAlphaChanneloption, it adds a little box to change the alpha value, but it's not especially obvious. In other applications with an alpha channel in their colour picker, there's usually something more prominent, like a slider and/or some indication of the alpha value in the box showing the selected colour. For example, Paint.NET (not a link, I just can't see how to escape the link parsing when a dot is present) has both:
There's a slider on the bottom right showing the current value and letting the user set it without typing, and in the top left, the preview box shows a checkerboard pattern.
In contrast, the Qt dialogue just has the Alpha channel text and spinner in the bottom right:
Users of my application have been confused by this, thinking they've set an opaque colour when it's actually been fully transparent.
My recommendation would be to:
- Add a slider to the right of the Val slider for the opacity when the
ShowAlphaChanneloption is active. - Blend the selected colour preview in the middle on top of a standard checkerboard pattern so the current opacity is obvious.
- Add a slider to the right of the Val slider for the opacity when the