Thanks Matthew, I realised I am setting a style sheet on that particular widget for other reasons, which is what interfered with the palette.
Cheers, frank On 20/11/13 06:22, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > On 2013-11-19 02:50, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a few custom widget with tooltips, one of which has such a dark >> background when run in context of it's host application that it's >> unreadable. >> What is the best way to control a tooltip's window/background color? >> I'm getting a bit lost amongst color roles and groups :/ > Try setting the application palette (QApplication::setPalette) before > creating any widgets. > > Also... > >> palette = w.palette() >> palette.setColor(QtGui.QPalette.ColorGroup.Inactive, >> QtGui.QPalette.ColorRole.ToolTipBase, >> QtGui.QColor(255,0,0)) > ...try setting the color in the Active group instead or in addition. (I > think tool tips use active, at least if their parent is active. Maybe > always... active vs. inactive handling isn't necessarily as well handled > as it should be.) > _______________________________________________ PySide mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside
