[PyQt] setting color of window titlebar or window background

[Erik Janssens]

we use a stylesheet for this purpose, they are
rather easy to implement, and you can have one
for test, pre-production, production ...

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/stylesheet.html


On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 22:00 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Sunday 16 October 2011, 21:14:44 Brad Buran wrote:
> > When users of my program run it in test mode, it is not actively
> > saving data.  Once in a while, a user forgets that they are in test
> > mode and attempts to run an experiment only to realize that the data
> > wasn't being saved after they're done.  Is it possible to change the
> > color of the title bar or background to indicate that it is in test
> > mode?  Something like a bright red title bar would be ideal, but I'm
> > ok with anything that I can set to visually indicate the difference
> > between test and data collection mode that's obvious enough to a
> > user.
> 
> Yes, of course, but the price is high: draw your own and mimic the 
> window manager behavior (move, hide, {min,max}imize, quit..).
> 
> How about coloring the background of your app, add some text to the 
> title bar or color your icon red?
> 
> Pete
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