@matthew: i was looking for kcolor, thanks for that information, it
should be most useful
@aaron: yes where the parent is 0, my code is attached to the original
email. i have been banging my head into that brick wall for a day at
least now regarding paintEvent()

ben cooksley

On 7/31/08, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> I have struck a bug in qt that does not allow any new qwidgets that
>> are parents to themselves,
>
> you mean widgets where parent() == 0?
>
>> to have a subclassed paintEvent(). they use
>> the default paintEvent() instead of my version.
>
> this works just fine ...
>
>> my paintEvent() does work for the main widget which was created when i
>> subclassed QWidget
>
> hm. i'd have to see an example of the code, but i'm going to guess something
> is going wrong in there.
>
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