statusBar() message color change

Greetings,

I want to be able to change the color of the statusBar message that appears in my QMainWindow object based upon the type of message; normal, warning, error...

The problem I need help with is that I'm also using the timer function of the statusBar. This means that if I change the palette of the statusBar and display the message, I must wait until the timer elapses to change the palette back.

For example, I display a warning message (forces a palette change to blue). If, after I show the message, I change the palette back, the palette switching happens so fast that the string never appears in the warning color.

Code:

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void MainWin::DisplayStatus( QString sStatus, QColor rgbColor, int duration )
{
    if ( !sStatus.isEmpty() )
    {
        QPalette palette;
        palette.setColor( QPalette::WindowText, rgbColor );
        statusBar()->setPalette( palette );
        statusBar()->showMessage( sStatus, duration );
 
        // resets the palette before the message can be seen in the previous color
        if ( rgbColor != COLOR_StatusNorm )
        {
            palette.setColor( QPalette::WindowText, COLOR_StatusNorm );
            statusBar()->setPalette( palette );
        }
    }
}

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If I don't reset the statusBar palette, all subsequent messages will use the warning color.

Most of the messages have a duration of 3-5 seconds so a Sleep() is not appropriate.

Does anyone have suggestions or am I trying to do something the statusBar was not intended for?

Why don't you use a singleshot timer with the same duration as the status message?
You start the timer right after you set a new status message.

Connect a slot to its timeout signal and in that slot change the color back.

Since the timer and the message have the same timeout, there should be a slight delay( the order of milliseconds) between the message timeout and timer timeout, but really, no one is going to notice that.

regards

Thanks Marcel, that looks like just the solution I need.