Highlighting selected section on QDateTimeEdit

[Bebert218]

I'm sorry to bring that thread up, but I actually have the same problem right now.
Meanwhile, it seems that a couple of functions were added to Qt, of which setSelectedSection,
but no matter what I do, the cursor always stays on the first section until the user interacts with the GUI.
Did anybody get the same behavior here ?

[dopestuff]

Unless its been fixed in a recent release (probably not but I havent tried - cant afford the disk space for more than 2 parallel versions of qt)...

Then, what you describe should probably be classified as a long time bug in Qt, that is, an inconsistency between the direct keyboard editing and software only control.

I usually steer well clear from GUIs and Commodity software...

Anyway so that you know, none of the previous suggestions will give you the correct behaviour and
the solution is not going to be as obvious as anyone has previously attempted to point out.
You are going to have to do what I did and get well acquainted with debugging the Qt Libraries.
In the end I made a very small fix/workaround in the Qt Libraries to get this to work.

Since I think Commodity/Free software and lack of regulation hurts the working Software Professional I will not post my version of the fix/workaround in the public domain. I will
leave that to some other person that believes doing work for free somehow greatly
improves their fiscal and career prospects in the "commodity software employers" buyers
market.