QComboBox with transparent dropdown

Sebbo

Hi everyone,

I'm working with a couple of QComboBoxes which are needed for e.g. changings in language and units. The stylesheet of each one looks as follows:

QComboBox {
   background: qlineargradient(
   x1:0, y1:0, x2:0, y2:1,
   stop:0 #f9f9f9,
   stop: 0.5 #c6c6c6,
   stop: 0.6 #dfdfdf,
   stop:1 #f9f9f9 );
   border-style: solid;
   border-width: 1px;
   border-color: rgb(0, 93, 168);
   border-radius: 30px;
   color: rgb(0, 93, 168);
   min-width: 170px;
   min-height: 60px;
   padding-left: 15px;
}
QComboBox:on {
   border-radius: 30px;
   background:transparent;
}
QComboBox::drop-down {
   image: url(:/bwt/downarrow.png);
   subcontrol-position: center right;
   margin-right: 10px;
}
QComboBox QAbstractItemView::item {
   padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}
QComboBox QAbstractItemView {
   color: rgb(0, 93, 168);
   background: transparent;
}
QComboBox QListView::item {
   background: qradialgradient(
   cx: 0.5, cy: -1.6, fx: 0.5, fy: 0,
   radius: 2,
   stop: 0 #C4C4C4,
   stop: 1 #DBDBDB );
   border-style: solid;
   border-width: 1px;
   border-color: rgb(0, 93, 168);
   border-radius: 20px;
}

Since I'm not able to upload pictures directly to this post here's an external link to what I get using the stylesheet from above:
combobox image

As you can see there's still a box with a white background behind the dropdown menu which I'd like to get rid of. Is it possible to keep the rounded edges while the white box behind it disappears using stylesheet? If not how do I solve this issue?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Seb

VRonin

That is a QFrame around it so I'd try

QComboBox QFrame{
   background: transparent;
}

Sebbo

@VRonin

Thank you for your suggestion. Sadly adding QFrame to the stylesheet didn't solve the issue.

VRonin

Looking at Qt source looks like QComboBoxPrivateContainer (that is the white box) is unstylable. you can still do it in C++ with

if (combo->view()->parentWidget())
    combo->view()->parentWidget()->setWindowOpacity(0);

source of C++ code: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26780629/qcombobox-transparent-item-list-stylesheet

Sebbo

@VRonin

With the provided code the whole dropdown list will be invisible. Do you know how to keep the items unaffected?