Weekly bit of Qt programming

Last night (or better: this morning) I decided that it should be possible to group a bunch of widgets (back-to-back) in a menu entry. ..Ahh, the stress :).. First, I tried "java style" (aka look on the net, maybe some other manic already did it). Either I was too tired, or it just didn't work.

So, after a while, I've decided that a progress bar is as good starting point as any. Big mistake, because the Progress landed in the menu filling up everything, and, after changing the focus in/focus out routines to change the background, observed that the BG of the inner rectangle wasn't painted using the background color (from the color group). Ouch!

But it ain't that bad, because one can embed the bar in a widget, make the parent bigger and change the parent's background on select (just it's not worth firing up the Qt Designer and making a .ui...).

Woo-hoo! The doors are open now!

-- This is a really old post published originally on my blogspot blog