Where is QLineEdit's text drawn in QStyle?

[CJha]

Hi, I am trying to create my own style, I am using Fusion style as my base style to do so. My main motive is to change the background and text colours of different widgets. I am unable to change the text colour for QLineEdit. This is what I am doing:

void GuiStyle::drawPrimitive(QStyle::PrimitiveElement element, const QStyleOption* option, QPainter* painter, const QWidget* widget) const
{
	if(element == QStyle::PE_PanelLineEdit) {
		const QStyleOptionFrame* comboOption = qstyleoption_cast<const QStyleOptionFrame*>(option);
		QStyleOptionFrame newComboOption = *comboOption;
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::Base, Qt::red);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::Text, Qt::green);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::WindowText, Qt::green);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::ButtonText, Qt::green);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::BrightText, Qt::green);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::ToolTipText, Qt::green);
		QProxyStyle::drawPrimitive(element, &newComboOption, painter, widget);
	}
	else if(element == QStyle::PE_FrameLineEdit) {
		const QStyleOptionFrame* comboOption = qstyleoption_cast<const QStyleOptionFrame*>(option);
		QStyleOptionFrame newComboOption = *comboOption;
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::Base, Qt::red);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::Window, Qt::green);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::Text, Qt::green);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::WindowText, Qt::green);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::BrightText, Qt::green);
		newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::ToolTipText, Qt::green);
		QProxyStyle::drawPrimitive(element, &newComboOption, painter, widget);
	}
	else {
		QProxyStyle::drawPrimitive(element, option, painter, widget);
	}
}

The base colour is red, but no matter what text colour I change (as you can see above, I have changed all text colours I could find to Qt::green) the text colour of QLineEdit always remains black. How can I change the text colour of QLineEdit?

P.S: Why is it that sometimes QStyleuses QPalette::Button as background colour and QPalette::WindowText as text colour when QPalette::ButtonText is already a defined colour (e.g. in QTabBar)? This can be really inconvenient if the two colours (QPalette::Window and QPalette::Button) are of opposite shades.

[mrjj]

Hi
It seems to use the Widgets palette and not the newComboOption.palette
https://code.woboq.org/qt5/qtbase/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit.cpp.html
line 2040

p.setPen(pal.text().color());

[CJha]

@mrjj Thanks, it seems like odd behaviour. So, it uses its native palette, i.e. the palette set either directly or inherited from its parent. I am able to change the colour now, but I am using a C-Style cast, and that's why I am not sure if I should do it. Here is my solution:

void GuiStyle::drawPrimitive(QStyle::PrimitiveElement element, const QStyleOption* option, QPainter* painter, const QWidget* widget) const
{
	if(vars[id].customTheme) {
		if(element == QStyle::PE_PanelLineEdit) {
			const QStyleOptionFrame* comboOption = qstyleoption_cast<const QStyleOptionFrame*>(option);
			QStyleOptionFrame newComboOption = *comboOption;
			newComboOption.palette.setBrush(QPalette::Base, Qt::red);

			// I am using C-Style cast to get the widget in a non-const pointer and then it's palette again the same way
			QLineEdit* lineEditPtr = (QLineEdit*)widget;
			QPalette pal = (QPalette)lineEditPtr->palette();
			pal.setColor(QPalette::Text, Qt::green);
			lineEditPtr->setPalette(pal);
			QProxyStyle::drawPrimitive(element, &newComboOption, painter, widget);
		}
	}
	else {
		QProxyStyle::drawPrimitive(element, option, painter, widget);
	}
}