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Create a glowing border in QSS


How would one go about create a glowing border around a button when a user hovers over it in PyQT4 QSS? I'm speaking of something similar to the box-shadowin CSS.

someButton:hover {
    border:1px solid black;
    /*Glowing code here?*/
}

http://0.tqn.com/d/webdesign/1/5/m/l/1/glow-effect.png


Solution

  • One way to do this, would be to use setGraphicsEffect with a QGraphicsDropShadowEffect:

        effect = QtGui.QGraphicsDropShadowEffect(button)
        effect.setOffset(0, 0)
        effect.setBlurRadius(20)
        button.setGraphicsEffect(effect)