Active/Inactive background colour switching

Perdrix

I have setup a Palette for a groupbox as follows:

QPalette palette;
QBrush brush(QColor(217, 224, 240, 255));
brush.setStyle(Qt::SolidPattern);
palette.setBrush(QPalette::Active, QPalette::Window, brush);
QBrush brush1(QColor(240, 240, 240, 255));
brush1.setStyle(Qt::SolidPattern);
palette.setBrush(QPalette::Inactive, QPalette::Window, brush1);
palette.setBrush(QPalette::Disabled, QPalette::Window, brush1);
groupbox.setPalette(palette);

How do I get the groupbox to switch between the Active and Inactive colours? Clicking on it doesn't seem to do much.

SGaist

Hi,

From memory, inactive is for when the container widget is inactive. Usually when another window or application has the focus.

Perdrix

In the end I gave up on that approach and did this:

oid ExplorerBar::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent *event)
{
	if (Qt::LeftButton == event->buttons())
	{
		const auto dwTabID = dssApp->tab();
		if ((ui->registerAndStack->underMouse()) && (dwTabID != IDD_REGISTERING) && (dwTabID != IDD_STACKING))
		{
			ui->registerAndStack->setStyleSheet("background-color: lightcyan");
			ui->processing->setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240)");
			// Change tab to stacking
			dssApp->setTab(IDD_STACKING);
		}
		else if (ui->processing->underMouse() && (dwTabID != IDD_PROCESSING))
		{
			ui->registerAndStack->setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240)");
			ui->processing->setStyleSheet("background-color: lightcyan");
			// Change tab to processing
			dssApp->setTab(IDD_PROCESSING);
		};
	}
	Inherited::mousePressEvent(event);
}