[mythtv] Modifying the width/style of the 'focus' indicator Qtuses for buttons etc?

[Tim Harvey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
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> On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:22 PM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Modifying the width/style of the 'focus'
indicator
> Qtuses for buttons etc?
> 
> On Wednesday 14 January 2004 12:02 am, Tim Harvey wrote:
> > The settings dialogs for MythTV keep driving me nuts.  I find it
very
> > difficult to tell which widget is focused making the whole interface
a
> > little non-intuitive as the focus indicator for a widget is a 1pt
dashed
> > line which barely registers on my TV/monitor.
> > Does anyone know if there is a global way to modify the linewidth or
> > style that Qt uses to display the widget that has keyboard focus?  I
> > could swear I saw Issac post about some sort of file that could be
> > edited to tweak qt settings but I can't find anything searching the
> > archives.  I've looked in qtconfig but haven't come up with a
solution.
> > I suppose I could subclass the widgets and implement my own focus
method
> > if there is no other way.
> 
> The focus indicator is dependent on the qt theme you are using, which
is
> why
> mythtv colors the widgets to the highlight color when they have focus.
> Try
> using a different Qt theme.  Also may help to try to spell my name
right
> in
> the future.

This was definitely my problem.  The 'bluecurve' Qt theme just wasn't
putting enough emphasis on the focused widget.  For those of you with
the same trouble, you can select your theme by running the 'qtconfig'
application.  

Thank you Isaac, this has been bugging me for some time.  Sorry about
misspelling your name as well.

> 
> > Personally I would like to see the settings dialogs get fully
> > implemented in mythweb and either completely pulled out of
mythfrontend
> > or stripped down to only main settings and save the 'advanced'
settings
> > for mythweb.  Has this been discussed before?  Obviously a first
step
> > would be implementing the settings within mythweb which I'm happy to
> > contribute to if someone isn't already working on it.
> 
> That's not going to happen.  I'm not going to force someone to open up
a
> web
> browser somewhere just to change a setting or two.
> 

Understood.  I'll probably still submit patches in the future to allow
the same settings via mythweb to give users another option.

Thanks,

Tim

> Isaac
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