Hi Sascha
First of all, I really appreciate your reply.
I just checked and you are right, there is no tristate support from QT for
the tabs or the tab-bars. Earlier I was confused as MITK black theme tab
files were having same content, but now I can see that, that's why with
black theme there is no separate background for active tab (as opposed to
default theme).
Thanks and Regards
Rachit
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Sascha Zelzer
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Rachit,
>
>
> On 06/18/2013 03:03 PM, Rachit Jain wrote:
>
>> So my questions are as follows:
>>
>> 1. Why there are separate style sheets provided (e.g. defaultstyle,
>> defaultstyle-activetab, defaultstyle-tab) ? Or precisely why there is
>> hard-coding of expected names e.g. -activetab.qss and defaultstyle-tab.qss
>> etc.)
>>
> These are not separate style sheets in a strict sense. Styling a MITK
> Workbench application requires a set of three files, the suffix "activetab"
> and "tab" is just a naming convention. The primary style sheet can be names
> anything you like and contains the overall styling. The style-sheet with
> the "activetab" suffix contains special styles for - well - the "active
> tabs" in the MITK Workbench. The "tab" style sheet contains the styles for
> "non-active" tabs (selected or unselected). Because the Workbench tabs can
> be in three states (unselected, selected, active (focused) ) these three
> states need/can be styled differently using the name-suffix (Qt style
> sheets provide no support for "tristate" tab styles).
>
>
>
>> 2. Why it is applied again and again. Setting it once would have the same
>> impact, right?
>>
> Because Qt only supports "selected" and "unselected" tab styles. If the
> user activates a View (tab) in the Workbench, we visualize this tab
> differently from other tabs which might be "selected" (visible in the
> foreground) by applying the -activetab.qss stylesheet.
>
>
>
>> Ideally, according to me the best design would be, MITK should have a
>> list (like a link list) of qss file (irrespective of the name of the qss
>> files) and it should apply this list once on the qApp. If any user (like
>> me), wishes to use my own style sheet, MITK should provide an interface
>> where I can set my list and MITK should iterate it and apply them all in
>> the same order I have provided my list.
>>
> That interface is provided on the API level by IQtStyleManager and in the
> MITK Workbench in the Preferences dialog.
>
> Best,
> Sascha
>
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