Setting the text of QLabel to the color of a Pixmap

[MichaelStein]

Hi everyone,

I have been struggling to set the text of my QLabel to the color and texture of a Pixmap. I want the text in the label to have a gold color with a shiny tinge. So I loaded a Pixmap image into the resources and created a Painter event on the QLabel. In the paint event I entered the following code:

@
void labelPaint::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *)
{
QBrush brush;

QPixmap Pixmap(":/gold.jpg");

brush.setTexture(Pixmap);

brush.setPixmap(Pixmap);

QPainter painter(this);

painter.setFont(QFont("Times New Roman", 30));

painter.setBrush(brush);

QString myString("some string");

painter.drawText(510,40,myString);

}@

And I still get the same plain black color as my text. Note that I used both setTexture and setPixmap in my atttempt.
Thank in advance

[Chris Kawa]

For drawing lines, outlines and text QPainter uses a pen. Brush is for filling shapes and paths. So instead of changing the brush of the painter change the brush of the pen of the painter (yeah, I know :) ).

@
QBrush brush;
...//setup brush
painter.setPen(QPen(brush, 1.0));
@

[MichaelStein]

Great, thank you it worked!