How to Change the Background Color of QWidget

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Introduction

QWidget is the base class of all user interface objects which means that the same approaches for changing the background color can be used with them too.

Using the Palette

The first example demonstrates how to change the background color using QPalette

m_pMyWidget = new QWidget(this);
m_pMyWidget->setGeometry(0,0,300,100);
QPalette Pal(palette());

// set black background
Pal.setColor(QPalette::Background, Qt::black);
m_pMyWidget->setAutoFillBackground(true);
m_pMyWidget->setPalette(Pal);
m_pMyWidget->show();

Using Style Sheet

The style sheet contains a textual description of customizations to the widget's style, as described in the Qt Style Sheets document.

m_pMyWidget = new QWidget(this);
m_pMyWidget->setGeometry(0,0,300,100);
m_pMyWidget->setStyleSheet("background-color:black;");
m_pMyWidget->show();

Both ways to change the background color of QWidget have been successfully built using Qt SDK 1.1 and tested on Symbian devices.

Note: If you subclass a custom widget from QWidget, then in order to use the StyleSheets you need to provide a paintEvent to the custom widget :

void CustomWidget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *)
{
 QStyleOption opt;
 opt.init(this);
 QPainter p(this);
 style()->drawPrimitive(QStyle::PE_Widget, &opt, &p, this);
}