On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:14, David Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun Apr 17 19:48:16 BST 2011, Sarah Mount wrote: > >> Thanks, you and David were both right, the error was an incorrect path >> for the JPG. However, what I was after was to have one image appear in >> the background, and not to have the image tiled. This is possible >> using a style sheet, but I'm not sure a) if it's possible using a >> brush (your code comes out with the image tiled) or b) whether it's >> possible to use a style sheet, as my code for that didn't work! > > I think the answers are: > > a) You can't really use a brush for this because it only supports > tiled textures. > b) QMdiArea doesn't support style sheets: > http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/stylesheet-reference.html > > However, I looked at qtconfig, one of the tools shipped with Qt, and it > seems that there's a trick you can use if you are able to create a QMdiArea > subclass and use that instead of a regular QMdiArea widget: > > http://www.diotavelli.net/PyQtWiki/Adding_a_background_image_to_an_MDI_area >
Thanks, that looks like just the thing! Sarah -- Sarah Mount, Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton website: http://www.snim2.org/ twitter: @snim2 _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
