Re: Octave Community News centering and content

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 11/18/2013 12:20 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 11/18/2013 12:43 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> > Is there any artistic sort who might want to give a try for a background
> > to the community news window to give it a little pizazz? The image
> > might be alpha shaded, or set to the bottom or top of the text. Maybe a
> > newspaper, or perhaps two silhouettes of two heads talking back and
> > forth with plot, formula, or matrix "speak balloons"?
>
> Do you mean to build that into the widget that displays the news?
>
> We are currently using the QTextBrowser widget to show the news. It
> is fairly limited, so I doubt that we could use HTML or css tricks to
> get the sort of background you are describing. And I'd rather not add
> webkit as a dependency.

No new libraries or anything.  The OCN window is 640x480 so I was 
thinking a 640x480 image as a backdrop.  There must be a way to place an 
image as a background of a Qt window

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/stylesheet-examples.html#customizing-qabstractscrollarea

...  Since you mention HTML though, I seem to recall a Qt window that 
processes HTML code (well I guess it is just a subset):

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/richtext-html-subset.html

Dan