Stylesheets for widget background

mirswith

I am trying to set the background for a widget using a gradient however it appears only the child widgets of my widget are getting the background. For testing in my widget constructor I have something like this:

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QVBoxLayout * layout = new QVBoxLayout();
QLabel * label = new QLabel("test");
layout->addWidget(label);
layout->addStretch(1);
setLayout(layout);

setStyleSheet("QWidget{"
"background: qlineargradient(x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1, stop:0 #565656, stop:1 #383838);"
"}");
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What this does is put a gradient on my label but instead I want it to fill myself then further I do not want my child widgets to inherit this style. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks.

mirswith

Found the answer to my own question, looks like I have to override the paintEvent as per the docs here "stylesheet reference":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/stylesheet-reference.html

Is there a way to set the style sheet for only myself and not my child widgets?

I'm half way there. :)

Thanks.