I'm trying to change the Icon of a QpushButton on hover and pressed, I'm using QtDesigner with stylesheets. I tried this
QpushButton{
qproperty-icon:url(:/images/start.png);
}
QPushButton:hover
{
qproperty-icon:url(:/images/start_hov.png);
}
But it doesn't work.
I tried setting it from QtDesigner Menu but it didn't work as well.
Unfortunately, it is a bug of Qt which is still not fixed. There's a workaround suggestion within the comments to that bug, basically you could use empty qproperty-icon
and reserve the space necessary for it while actually changing background-image
property instead:
QPushButton {
qproperty-icon: url(" "); /* empty image */
qproperty-iconSize: 16px 16px; /* space for the background image */
background-image: url(":/images/start.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
QPushButton:hover {
background-image: url(":/images/start_hov.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
But the end result looks... not very satisfactory really. You can get much better results if you use C++ to change the button's icon at runtime, here's a simple example using event filter:
#include <QObject>
#include <QPushButton>
#include <QEvent>
class ButtonHoverWatcher : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit ButtonHoverWatcher(QObject * parent = Q_NULLPTR);
virtual bool eventFilter(QObject * watched, QEvent * event) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;
};
ButtonHoverWatcher::ButtonHoverWatcher(QObject * parent) :
QObject(parent)
{}
bool ButtonHoverWatcher::eventFilter(QObject * watched, QEvent * event)
{
QPushButton * button = qobject_cast<QPushButton*>(watched);
if (!button) {
return false;
}
if (event->type() == QEvent::Enter) {
// The push button is hovered by mouse
button->setIcon(QIcon(":/images/start_hov.png"));
return true;
}
if (event->type() == QEvent::Leave){
// The push button is not hovered by mouse
button->setIcon(QIcon(":/images/start.png"));
return true;
}
return false;
}
Then somewhere in your code setting up the UI you do something like this:
ButtonHoverWatcher * watcher = new ButtonHoverWatcher(this);
ui->pushButton->installEventFilter(watcher);
And bingo - you get the button's icon changing on hover and unhover!