Disabled QLineEdit Background Color

[tecknophreak]

Ok, I've searched around and keep finding the same solution:

@MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
: QMainWindow(parent)
{
QLineEdit *edit;
edit = new QLineEdit();
edit->setText("Lineedit");

edit->setDisabled(true);
QPalette pal = edit->palette();
pal.setColor(QPalette::Disabled, QPalette::Text, pal.color(QPalette::Active, QPalette::Text));
pal.setColor(QPalette::Disabled, QPalette::Base, pal.color(QPalette::Active, QPalette::Base));
edit->setPalette(pal);
setCentralWidget(edit);

}@

Actually, the above is what I got from the FAQs, but I've seen the solution in a few other threads here and there. However, my background color remains the same, grey. I've put in an RGB of 0xff, 0, 0 with the same results. If I take out the edit->setDisabled(true), I have an editable field with a red background. I'm using QT Creator 1.3.1 based on QT 4.6.2.

Any Ideas? Thanks!

[Yash]

Try using QSS . Search for css in docs. Let me know if you fail to achieve.

[tecknophreak]

Well, I didn't want to use the QSS, just so that I could keep it all in source(at least for now). It turns out I didn't do a few steps, for one, call setAutoFillBackground(true). That then filled in the background(not of the text, but of the line edit) red. So I changed p.setColor(QPalette::Base, Qt::white) to p.setColor(QPalette::Background, Qt::white) and it worked.

I guess I misread the QPalette enum documentation. So it's solved.