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);
}