QTabBar "Paint Event" & Stylesheet Conflicting

[Narutoblaze]

I am painting my own tabbar to create the blinking effect but i also have to style the tabbar so i also have this stylesheet but it is removing the blinking effect is there a work around to this?

I have found few ways searching the internet but i don't know it will work in my case and also not sure how to apply it.

These Are :

QAnimation

Dynamically change stylesheet

My Paint Function :

void customTabBar::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
{
    QTabBar::paintEvent(event);
    QStylePainter painter(this);
    QStyleOptionTab opt;

    customTabWidget *parentTabWidget = qobject_cast<customTabWidget *>(parentWidget());
    for (int i = 0; i < count(); i++) {
        initStyleOption(&opt, i);

        if (AlertList.contains(parentTabWidget->widget(i)) && on == true) {
            opt.palette.setColor(QPalette::Button, Qt::red);
            painter.drawControl(QStyle::CE_TabBarTab, opt);
        }

        if (PinList.contains(parentTabWidget->widget(i))) {
            opt.palette.setColor(QPalette::Button, Qt::blue);
            painter.drawControl(QStyle::CE_TabBarTab, opt);
        }
    }
}

My stylesheet :

QTabBar::tab {
    margin-left: 2px;
    background: #373638;
    color: #f8f8f2;
    padding-left: 20px;
    padding-right: 20px;
    border-bottom-color: transparent;
    padding-top: 1px;
    padding-bottom: 1px;
    border-radius: 2px;
}

QTabBar::tab:selected{
    margin-left: 2px;
    background-color: #535455;
    color: #f8f8f2;
    padding-left: 20px;
    padding-right: 20px;
    padding-top: 1px;
    padding-bottom: 1px;
    border-bottom-color: transparent;
    border-radius: 2px;
}

[Christian Ehrlicher]

The style always wins as written here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/stylesheet.html#overview

"Style sheets are applied on top of the current widget style,"