Need Graphical Text on QPushButton/QLabel

[JimDaniel]

I'm wanting to create more graphical text to put on our QPushButtons and QLabels. I mean text with effects, like gradients...outlines...etc.

How would you gurus recommend approaching something like this? I'd like to avoid pre-creating images for all the text I'll need, as we'll need to translate it later on. I know QPainter can achieve all the effects I need.

Would the best method be to get the region of the button or label I want the graphical text on, then use QPainter to paint the text I need inside the area? That was my initial thought, but somehow I don't like that.

Thanks for any help you can give, Daniel

EDIT: Been reading up on QPainter - I notice it can take a QPaintDevice in its constructor as the object to paint to. Looking at QPaintDevice I see that QPixmap implements it. Would it be feasible (efficient) to paint my graphical text to a QPixmap object, then set the QPixmap as the button's icon? I'm going to experiment of course, just want to do it the best possible way.