[PyKDE] paint() and getting out of corners

[Jim Bublitz]

On 22-Nov-02 Rune Hansen wrote:
> As the title hints I've got serious problems trying to understand
> how to set color and font on a specific QListBoxItem. I would
> really appreciate a working example or at least better advice
> than RTFM ;-)

It looks like the easiest way would be to derive a class from
QListBoxText and overload QListBoxText.paint (QPainter). Modify the
properties of QPainter to get the fonts and colors you want.

class CustomListBoxText (QListBoxText):
    def __init__ (self, <args>):
        QListBoxText.__init__ (self, <args>)

    def paint (p):
        p.setFont (<args>)
        p.setPen (<color>)  # or create new pen(s) as needed
        QListBoxText.paint (self, p)

For QPainter you'll have to RTFM though :) QPainter has methods for
setting the font and colors, and shouldn't be too difficult to
figure out.

If you can read C++ source, sometimes downloading the Qt source
from TrollTech can be helpful (and sometimes not).

Jim