Seeing all the interest in the DotNet style makes it fairly obvious that you would like to have sexy tool bars with Qt. Today I implemented another popular style for tool bars on Windows: the Explorer style. The difference might not be all that obvious at first sight, but you will see a nice gradient shading across the tool bar and menu areas if you look closer. It is also entirely theme dependent.
Here is how it looks on XP:
And here is how it looks on Vista:
Get the files here : explorerstyle.zip
To try it out simply compile the style and run your application with “-style explorer” as command line arguments.
A few notes :
- left and right toolbar areas do not have gradients as the shading looked a bit weird in those areas
- It requires Qt 4.3.0 and will only work on Windows
- You can use it on both open source and commercial apps at your own risk
Enjoy 
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Wow, thank you! I really appreciate what you’ve been doing lately with all the Windows Style perfections.
I can’t tell you how often I submitted suggestions for over 2 years regarding stuff like this (gradients in tool bars, fancy item view selections, etc.). Thanks!
Thank you VERY VERY much, this is exactly what I was thiking about !
Thanks Jens !
> Windows Style perfections…
… and what about border of the QComboBox popup list in WindowsClassic style?
Thank you guys, it is truly inspiring getting positive feedback.
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OK, sorry.
Your work is great.
Thanks!
Small detail, in the .pro, you have set TARGET before the classic “_d/_debug” routine.
Currently, TARGET will ever be explorerstyle, in debug or in release.
sysedit : Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll make sure to clean it up next time I edit the sources.
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