Qt4 IDE

[jacek]

The Assistant states:

By default, QLineEdits have a frame as specified by the Windows and Motif style guides; you can turn it off by calling setFrame(false).

By default, QLineEdits have a frame as specified by the Windows and Motif style guides; you can turn it off by calling setFrame(false).

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So the "frame" setting is just switching between the Windows and Motif style guides.

Not quite, it says that Windows and Motif style guidelines require that frame should be visible, so it's visible by default, and that you can always switch it off.

The various settings associated with QStyle are not settable in the Designer, so in Windows a depression turns on or off, and in Linux a line turns on or off, when you toggle the frame setting.

Again it's not a windows/Linux problem. See the attached screenshots, all of them were taken under Linux and as you can see each style treats the "frame" property in a different way.

If you want to change style properties you would have to design a new style, and that's not possible with Designer. The problem is that a style is global for the whole application and you can't change it just for one widget.

There are probably many missing features in the Designer, but you must admit that they made a great improvement since Qt 4.0.0. Just make sure that the Trolls know what they should improve.