[PyQt] Styling an QMdiArea widget

[Sarah Mount]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 15:28, Vincent Vande Vyvre
<vincent.vandevyvre at swing.be> wrote:
> Le 17/04/11 15:17, Sarah Mount a écrit :
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a main application window that I want to style with a style
> sheet like this:
>
>
> #mywidget {
>     background : white;
>     background-image : url(:/images/images/EfDChancoComposite.jpg);
>     background-repeat : no-repeat;
> }
>
>
> When the project is created, the widget that I want to apply the CSS
> to becomes an MDI area, so presumably the styling now needs to apply
> to the MDI area, not the original widget, like this:
>
>
> class MyMainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow, Ui_MainWindow):
>     def __init__(self, parent=None):
>         QtGui.QMainWindow.__init__(self)
>         self.setupUi(self)
>         self.mdi = QtGui.QMdiArea()
>         self.mdi.setStyleSheet("QMdiArea { background : white;
> background-image : url(:/images/images/EfDChancoComposite.jpg);
> background-repeat : no-repeat; }")
>         self.setCentralWidget(self.mdi)
>
>
> ...but that doesn't work! Is this because QMdiArea widgets can't be
> styled with CSS, and if so, is it possible to use a QBrush to do this
> (including the no-repeat directive)? Or, have I just misunderstood the
> API?
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sarah
>
> Hi,
>
> You can use setBackground()
>
>         self.brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QPixmap("view.jpg"))
>         self.mdi.setBackground(self.brush)
>
> but reimplement sizeEvent() for rescale the pixmap
>

Thanks, tried that code and the image doesn't appear :( There's no
traceback so it's difficult to figure out why...

Sarah

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