we use a stylesheet for this purpose, they are rather easy to implement, and you can have one for test, pre-production, production ...
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/stylesheet.html On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 22:00 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > On Sunday 16 October 2011, 21:14:44 Brad Buran wrote: > > When users of my program run it in test mode, it is not actively > > saving data. Once in a while, a user forgets that they are in test > > mode and attempts to run an experiment only to realize that the data > > wasn't being saved after they're done. Is it possible to change the > > color of the title bar or background to indicate that it is in test > > mode? Something like a bright red title bar would be ideal, but I'm > > ok with anything that I can set to visually indicate the difference > > between test and data collection mode that's obvious enough to a > > user. > > Yes, of course, but the price is high: draw your own and mimic the > window manager behavior (move, hide, {min,max}imize, quit..). > > How about coloring the background of your app, add some text to the > title bar or color your icon red? > > Pete > _______________________________________________ > PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
