Chapter 1. Look and Feel Customization
In this chapter we will cover the following recipes:
- Using style sheets with Qt Designer
- Basic style sheet customization
- Creating a login screen using style sheets
- Using resources in style sheets
- Customizing properties and sub-controls
- Styling in QML
- Exposing QML object pointer to C++
Introduction
Qt allows us to easily design our program's user interface through a method that most people are familiar with. Qt not only provides us with a powerful user interface toolkit called Qt Designer, which enables us to design our user interface without writing a single line of code, but it also allows advanced users to customize their user interface components through a simple scripting language called Qt Style Sheets.
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