What is the alternate for StyleSheet to set the background and bottom border of a custom widget derived from the QWidget?

thomasjohnaj

I Have a custom widget derived from QWidget

it contain two labels. Now I want to fill the background of the Custom widget ( which include the child widget) with red and set the bottom border with 2px thickness and color dark red. I dont want to use stylesheet, since its organization policy to rely less on style sheet.

What i tried?

I override the paintevent and have made use of the below code to fill the rectangle

QPainter painter(this);
painter.fillRect(rect(), QColor(170,30,330));

this worked for me. I am still in a doubt how to set the border width and color.

mrjj

Hi
You can look how QFrame does.

void QFrame::drawFrame(QPainter *p)
{
    QStyleOptionFrame opt;
    initStyleOption(&opt);
    style()->drawControl(QStyle::CE_ShapedFrame, &opt, p, this);
}

However, it would be easier to just inherit from QFrame instead so you can just set properties and
not values in QStyleOptionFrame.