Hi, I'm new to the forum so apologies if this is in the wrong section or I've made any other etiquette blunders .
I'm interested in whether it's possible to have widgets of existing classes drawn using a custom paint engine. From reading the documentation, all I can find is about creating a new type of widget which can then specify the paint engine it uses, so I imagine what I want isn't directly possible.
One (deeply unpleasant) approach which occurred to me would be to modify Qt itself - alter the QWidget:aintEngine() method in qwidget_x11.cpp and friends to point to a new paint engine.
Short of that, are there any other approaches that might work?
BTW, the closest I've seen to what I want is described at "Using QGLWidget paint engine to draw regular widgtes?", but that ended without any real resolution and I didn't want to resurrect an old thread...
Thanks for your time - and especially if you can point out some simple solution I've missed .
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