QPushButton
can have icon, but I need to set animated icon to it. How to do this?
I created new class implemented from QPushButton
but how to replace icon from QIcon
to QMovie
?
This can be accomplished without subclassing QPushButton
by simply using the signal / slot mechanism of Qt. Connect the frameChanged
signal of QMovie
to a custom slot in the class that contains this QPushButton
. This function will apply the current frame of the QMovie
as the icon of the QPushButton
. It should look something like this:
// member function that catches the frameChanged signal of the QMovie
void MyWidget::setButtonIcon(int frame)
{
myPushButton->setIcon(QIcon(myMovie->currentPixmap()));
}
And when allocating your QMovie
and QPushButton
members ...
myPushButton = new QPushButton();
myMovie = new QMovie("someAnimation.gif");
connect(myMovie,SIGNAL(frameChanged(int)),this,SLOT(setButtonIcon(int)));
// if movie doesn't loop forever, force it to.
if (myMovie->loopCount() != -1)
connect(myMovie,SIGNAL(finished()),myMovie,SLOT(start()));
myMovie->start();