setStylesheet - get colour from default scheme

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Rafael_Lago | 2020-11-24 10:33:01 UTC | #1

So, I am trying to change the background colour of one Widget to a "default" colour, something like:

self.setStyleSheet("QLineEdit { background: \<alternate-row-background-colour> ; }")

I don't want to hard-code a colour of "my choice" inside of the code, because if the user changes the his/hers colour scheme, the "my colour" could just look weird or even unreadable.

Is there any set of "default" colours, provided by the chosen colour scheme?

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setStylesheet - get colour from default scheme was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt.

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