I am trying to develop a GUI that contains a QTextEdit widget. When the gui loads, it pulls in data from a file where the data is in columns of fixed widths. I want the user to be able to click at...

I've been trying to paint custom borders for existing .Net WinForms controls. I've attempted this by creating a class which from the control I want to change the border color of, and then try sever...

I have: class QTextEditEnter : public QTextEdit { Q_OBJECT public: QTextEditEnter( QWidget *_parent ) : QTextEdit(_parent) { this -> setFrameStyle( QFrame::Sunken ); // Sunken! } protecte...

I am wondering in which cases does a widget receive its paint event, and how does it vary with the OS. Qt documentation for paintEvent says only A paint event is a request to repaint all or par...