Controls 1.4: Partially changing control style without discarding system palette

EvilMav

Hi,

had no luck so far at stackoverflow, so I'm crossposting it here.

I want to partially change the style of a control without affecting it's rendering otherwise. Let's take a button as an example and create a MyButton.qml containing:

Button {
    id: mybutton

    style: ButtonStyle {
          label: Text {
            renderType: Text.NativeRendering
            font.family: "Helvetica"
            font.pointSize: 20
            text: control.text
          } 
    }
}

Expected: a system theme colored button with an ugly font in it.
Got: default-styled button ignoring the system palette (while the rest of the application is themed fine)
example

Why does the overriding style ignore the system palette? What is the right way to do it?

p3c0

@EvilMav AFAIK overriding the style removes the default style. One way to make partial changes is to directly change in the source as described here

The second way to create the button is good if you plan to use your rounded button in several places. It involves moving the code into its own QML file within your project.
For this approach, we'll copy the background code from the default style's Button.qml. This file can be found in the following path in your Qt installation:
$QTDIR/qml/QtQuick/Controls.2/Button.qml