QwtPlot: how to set the canvas background colour to a semi-transparent?

agarny

Hi,

I have a QwtPlot object and I want and need to change its canvas background colour. To that end, I do something like:

QBrush brush = canvasBackground();

brush.setColor(myColor);

setCanvasBackground(brush);

This works fine with opaque colours, but if I have a semi-transparent colour (e.g. #3a108080), then the effective colour becomes that of its corresponding opaque colour (i.e. #108080). Yet, if I query the canvas background colour, I correctly get #3a108080...!?

So, what am I doing wrong here?...

FWIW, I have managed to get things to work as I want by replacing the above code with:

setStyleSheet(QString("QwtPlotCanvas {"
                      "    background: %1;"
                      "}").arg(myColor.name(QColor::HexArgb)));

Now, although it works fine, I must confess that I would rather avoid having to use style sheets. So, any idea how I achieve the same result using something like my original code?

Cheers, Alan.

agarny

Actually, to use style sheets is not right for what I want since I want the semi-transparent colour to be on a white background, while my QwtPlot object has a grey background...

This means that, in the end, I am doing the following:

static const QColor White = Qt::white;

QBrush brush = canvasBackground();
double ratio = myColor.alpha()/256.0;

brush.setColor(QColor((1.0-ratio)*White.red()+ratio*myColor.red(),
                      (1.0-ratio)*White.green()+ratio*myColor.green(),
                      (1.0-ratio)*White.blue()+ratio*myColor.blue()));

setCanvasBackground(brush);

I guess I am happy with that...