How to get rid of focus rectangle?

[stegemann]

When I select for example a QPushbutton when running my app in the Symbian Emulator I get this white inner border like in this picture:



I've heard that it is because the button gets the focus and it's the focus rectangle. Is the only way to get rid of this to alter the paint event? I'm using stylesheets when styling my app, can I in some way get rid of the rectangle using stylesheets?

It seems like a mass of work if I need to alter the paint event for each QPushbutton, QTabbar, QListWidgetItem and so on to get rid of this rectangle?

[danhicksbyron]

Don't accept focus: setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus)

[stegemann]

Thanks! That made the ugly rectangle go away but now the button wouldn't accept my stylesheet for:

QPushButton:selected { 
  background: red;
}

So I can choose between having the ugly rectangle and be able to style the button when selected OR no rectangle but also no style when selected at all? Or am I doing something wrong here?

[danhicksbyron]

Well, the ugly rectangle is largely there for tabbing. Have you tried using the UI builder to remove your button from the tab order? (I don't know what this does to the button under the covers.)

Or perhaps you can get rid of it by using

QPushButton:selected { 
  border-image: some-image;
}

(or some of the other border properties)
since the rectangle is, as you suggest, likely a part of the border.

[lsvensson]

Hi Stegemann,

Overriding drawControl works well with stylesheets and just requires a few lines of implementation. All the code you need is here.

Hope that helps

//Lennart

[stegemann]

Hi Stegemann,

Overriding drawControl works well with stylesheets and just requires a few lines of implementation. All the code you need is here.

Hope that helps

//Lennart

Thanks Lennart! So I only need to do this once in the main file and it will work for all QPushbuttons? As I'm running on Symbian I noticed that the example you linked to was using QWindowsStyle, will this still work on my Symbian app?

[lsvensson]

Thanks Lennart!

You're welcome!

So I only need to do this once in the main file and it will work for all QPushbuttons?

Well, yes, but you need to call setStyle() on each button where you want to get rid of the selection box. I just put it all in a header file, included it and called setStyle() in the constructor of the respective dialog/window as needed.

As I'm running on Symbian I noticed that the example you linked to was using QWindowsStyle, will this still work on my Symbian app?

Yes, it was working fine for me on s60 5th/Qt 4.6.2