Changing the colour of an individual widget

[georgie]

ok - I am struggling a bit with my styles......
I want to have a uniform style for the whole application, and then I want to be able to make a couple of the key widgets stand out by changing them to a second style....


basically what I do is

int main(int argc, char*[] argv)
{
  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  app.QApplication::setStyle(new TopLayoutStyle);  
 .....
  MyTabWidget* topRight = new MyTabWidget();
  MyQPalette*     palette     = topRight->getPalette();
  palette->changeColour();
  topRight->QWidget::setPalette(bottomColours);
.......
}

int main(int argc, char*[] argv)
{
  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  app.QApplication::setStyle(new TopLayoutStyle);  
 .....
  MyTabWidget* topRight = new MyTabWidget();
  MyQPalette*     palette     = topRight->getPalette();
  palette->changeColour();
  topRight->QWidget::setPalette(bottomColours);
.......
}

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MyQPalette::changeColour()
{
  QColor greenShadow(98, 161, 98);
  QColor green(112, 181, 112);
  QColor greenLight(116, 195, 116);
  QColor greenMid(95,135,95);
  QColor greenForeground(167, 210, 183, 63);
  QColor greenDark(80, 140, 80);
  QColor midYellow(255, 235, 0);
 
  this->setBrush(QPalette::BrightText,greenForeground);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Base, green);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Highlight, greenForeground);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Background, green);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Light, greenLight);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Mid, greenMid);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Dark, greenDark);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Button, green);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Window, green);
}

MyQPalette::changeColour()
{
  QColor greenShadow(98, 161, 98);
  QColor green(112, 181, 112);
  QColor greenLight(116, 195, 116);
  QColor greenMid(95,135,95);
  QColor greenForeground(167, 210, 183, 63);
  QColor greenDark(80, 140, 80);
  QColor midYellow(255, 235, 0);

  this->setBrush(QPalette::BrightText,greenForeground);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Base, green);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Highlight, greenForeground);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Background, green);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Light, greenLight);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Mid, greenMid);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Dark, greenDark);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Button, green);
  this->setBrush(QPalette::Window, green);
}

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now for the most part this is cool, all the buttons/outlines etc change on the tabs widget which I want to stand out....only prob is that the background does not change colour even though everything else does
i've attached a screen shot
I can't work out why the background of the tab widget appears to be filled with the background of the application instead of its own background unhappy

(and yes, I know the screen layout is pretty crappy at the moment - i'm still just experimenting and getting my custom widgets to look right)

thanks guys