@Sphinkie
Wow, I had not noticed there is such a namespace since I'm still mainly using 5.12.
If the constants are QColor objects as the doc says, then you should be able to use them directly like

w->setForeground(QColorConstants::Red); w->setBackground(QColorConstants::Yellow);

@TheTrueGoofy said in Read and write QBrush (QPen, QFont) as XML:

Certainly this is also quite simple to implement, but I was hoping that there is a more elegant solution.

I think the only other way is to create feature request for QtGui, or implement a Qt patch yourself - to add a QBrush::toString() method (or QTextStream overload), with a corresponding QBrush::fromString().

The solution was pretty easy, but I overlooked it:

QBrush bgBrush,fgBrush; bgBrush = QBrush(color); fgBrush = QBrush(pixMap); painter->setPen(borderpen); painter->fillRect(rec, bgBrush); painter->fillRect(rec, fgBrush); painter->drawRect(rec);

Just a brainfart from my side, nothing to see here. Move on!