> I would probably prefer something like an overlay message popping up for a > few seconds or (a bit nineties style) a status bar message. Another would be > to have a subtle small icon overlay float from the button up to the tab.
Overlay message probably is a little more intrusive than we want, but might be an option. Status bar message I can (and probably will do), but that's probably not very noticeable given where the user's eyes are most likely to be. I do like the idea of doing an animation, that definitely would be eye-catching, positive feedback that something happened, and also give the user the notion of where it the snapshot went. > I was trying to think if there were ways to hack around a QStyle proxy to do > the flashy bit, but I'm not sure without spending a fair amount of time. The > trick in this case is always the same idea: > > 1) Override only exactly what you need, in this case the drawing of a single > tab. > 2) Find a way to realize that you're currently painting the thing you want to > change. > 3) Override the painting of that single item, call the base class painter for > all > others. > > This is a generic QStyle trick that can be used for many evil purposes. > The problem with it is that it's quite hard to debug for anyone that doesn't > know you have done it - imagine the poor developer going "where the > f!#ยค%& does that come from"? Hurting maintainability is usually a bad idea. > > The trick has much more of an appeal if you already have a lot of QStyle stuff > in your code. I'm fairly certain I've never explicitly typed: #include <QStyle> in my career, so that probably gives you some indication of how much QStyle stuff is in my code! If I can't get any of the above stuff working, I might try to come up to speed on using QStyle stuff to help out. On a related note if I do decide to play around with QStyle stuff, the original effect I'm trying to do was supposed to be a subtle change of color to the native QTabBar's tab. Are there any resources that help me start from how Qt was naturally going to draw the tab? As I was playing around with the stylesheet option I'm realizing it's very difficult to use a stylesheet to replicate most of the native widget's looks and feel, but then just tint the color a little. But because of the way stylesheets are all or none, you can't simply do: QTabBar::tab:middle{ background: #00ff00; } Because then you just end up with the middle tab(s) that while they are green, they are very flat, undecorated. So I spent a lot of time yesterday playing around, trying to get something that looks close to natural. I don't think I'm quite there yet! Sean _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest