The QStyleOption class stores the parameters used by methods in QStyle. More...

Inheritance diagram for QStyleOption:

Public Types
enum	OptionType

enum	StyleOptionType

enum	StyleOptionVersion

Public Methods
	QStyleOption (const QStyleOption &other)

	QStyleOption (int version=QStyleOption::Version, int type=SO_Default)

	~QStyleOption ()

void	initFrom (const QWidget *widget)

QStyleOption &	operator= (const QStyleOption &other)

Public Members
int	type

int	version

Related Functions
These are not member functions
T	qstyleoption_cast (const QStyleOption *option)

T	qstyleoption_cast (QStyleOption *option)

Detailed Description

The QStyleOption class stores the parameters used by methods in QStyle. QStyleOption and its subclasses contain all the information QStyle needs to draw a graphical element. For performance reasons there are few methods and the data is stored in public data members.

Example

The following code shows how to use a QStyleOptionButton to paint a push button. The control is a QStyle::CE_PushButton and the QStyle::drawControl() uses a QStyleOptionButton.

void MyPushButton::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *) {
   QStyleOptionButton option;
   option.initFrom(this);
   option.state = isDown() ? QStyle::State_Sunken : QStyle::State_Raised;
 
   if (isDefault()) {
      option.features |= QStyleOptionButton::DefaultButton;
   }
 
   option.text = text();
   option.icon = icon();
 
   QPainter painter(this);
   style()->drawControl(QStyle::CE_PushButton, &option, &painter, this);
}

When reimplementing QStyle methods which use a QStyleOption parameter, you may need to cast the QStyleOption to the child data type. The qstyleoption_cast() will return a nullptr if the object is not of the correct type.

void MyStyle::drawPrimitive(PrimitiveElement element, const QStyleOption *option, QPainter *painter, const QWidget *widget)
{
  if (element == PE_FrameFocusRect) {
      const QStyleOptionFocusRect *focusRectOption = qstyleoption_cast<const QStyleOptionFocusRect *>(option);
 
      if (focusRectOption) {
         // do something
      }
  }
}

See also: QStyle, QStylePainter

Member Enumeration Documentation

enum QStyleOption::OptionType

This enum is used internally by QStyleOption and its subclasses

Constant	Value	Description
`QStyleOption::SO_Button`	`2`	QStyleOptionButton
`QStyleOption::SO_ComboBox`	?	QStyleOptionComboBox
`QStyleOption::SO_Complex`	`0xf0000`	QStyleOptionComplex
`QStyleOption::SO_Default`	`0`	QStyleOption
`QStyleOption::SO_DockWidget`	`9`	QStyleOptionDockWidget
`QStyleOption::SO_FocusRect`	`1`	QStyleOptionFocusRect
`QStyleOption::SO_Frame`	`5`	QStyleOptionFrame
`QStyleOption::SO_GraphicsItem`	`15`	QStyleOptionGraphicsItem
`QStyleOption::SO_GroupBox`	?	QStyleOptionGroupBox
`QStyleOption::SO_Header`	`8`	QStyleOptionHeader
`QStyleOption::SO_MenuItem`	`4`	QStyleOptionMenuItem
`QStyleOption::SO_ProgressBar`	`6`	QStyleOptionProgressBar
`QStyleOption::SO_RubberBand`	`13`	QStyleOptionRubberBand
`QStyleOption::SO_SizeGrip`	?	QStyleOptionSizeGrip
`QStyleOption::SO_Slider`	?	QStyleOptionSlider
`QStyleOption::SO_SpinBox`	?	QStyleOptionSpinBox
`QStyleOption::SO_Tab`	`3`	QStyleOptionTab
`QStyleOption::SO_TabBarBase`	`12`	QStyleOptionTabBarBase
`QStyleOption::SO_TabWidgetFrame`	`11`	QStyleOptionTabWidgetFrame
`QStyleOption::SO_TitleBar`	?	QStyleOptionTitleBar
`QStyleOption::SO_ToolBar`	`14`	QStyleOptionToolBar
`QStyleOption::SO_ToolBox`	`7`	QStyleOptionToolBox
`QStyleOption::SO_ToolButton`	?	QStyleOptionToolButton
`QStyleOption::SO_ViewItem`	`10`	QStyleOptionViewItem (used in Interviews)

The following values are used for custom controls:

Constant	Value	Description
`QStyleOption::SO_CustomBase`	`0xf00`	Reserved for custom QStyleOptions; all custom controls values must be above this value
`QStyleOption::SO_ComplexCustomBase`	`0xf000000`	Reserved for custom QStyleOptions; all custom complex controls values must be above this value

See also: QStyleOption::StyleOptionType, qstyleoption_cast()

enum QStyleOption::StyleOptionType

This enum is used to hold information about the type of the style option and is defined for each QStyleOption subclass.

Constant	Value	Description
`QStyleOption::Type`	`SO_Default`	The type of style option provided by this class

See also: QStyleOption::StyleOptionVersion, qstyleoption_cast()

enum QStyleOption::StyleOptionVersion

This enum is used to hold information about the version of the style option, and is defined for each QStyleOption subclass.

Constant	Value	Description
`QStyleOption::Version`	`1`	Version 1

See also: QStyleOption::StyleOptionType, qstyleoption_cast()

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

QStyleOption::QStyleOption	(	int	version = `QStyleOption::Version`,
		int	type = `SO_Default`
	)

Constructs a QStyleOption with the specified version and type. The version has no special meaning for QStyleOption; it can be used by subclasses to distinguish between different version of the same option type.

The state member variable is initialized to QStyle::State_None.

See also: QStyleOption::StyleOptionType, QStyleOption::StyleOptionVersion

QStyleOption::QStyleOption ( const QStyleOption & other )

Constructs a copy of other.

QStyleOption::~QStyleOption ( )

Destroys this style option object.

Method Documentation

void QStyleOption::initFrom ( const QWidget * widget )

Initializes the state, direction, rect, palette, and fontMetrics member variables based on the specified widget.

See also: QWidget::layoutDirection(), QWidget::rect(), QWidget::palette(), QWidget::fontMetrics()

QStyleOption & QStyleOption::operator= ( const QStyleOption & other )

Assign other to this QStyleOption.

Friends And Related Function Documentation

T qstyleoption_cast ( const QStyleOption * option )

void MyStyle::drawPrimitive(PrimitiveElement element, const QStyleOption *option, QPainter *painter, const QWidget *widget)
   {
      if (element == PE_FrameFocusRect) {
         const QStyleOptionFocusRect *focusRectOption = qstyleoption_cast<const QStyleOptionFocusRect *>(option);
 
         if (focusRectOption) {
            // do something
         }
      }
 
      // do something
   }

See also: QStyleOption::StyleOptionType, QStyleOption::StyleOptionVersion

T qstyleoption_cast ( QStyleOption * option )

Member Data Documentation

QStyleOption::type

This variable holds the type of the style option. The default value is SO_Default.

See also: QStyleOption::OptionType

QStyleOption::version

This variable holds the version of the style option. This value can be used by subclasses to implement extensions without breaking compatibility. If you use the qstyleoption_cast() function, you normally do not need to check it. The default value is 1.

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