How Do I Use A QStyledItemDelegate To Paint Only The Background, Without Covering The Text?

How should I change just the background color of my tree item using a delegate? I haven't been able to figure out how to do this without painting on top of the text. In other words

Solution 1:

To override background color for selected items, you can disable the selected flag in initStyleOption. For example:

import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class SelectionColorDelegate(QStyledItemDelegate):
        def __init__(self, parent):
        super(SelectionColorDelegate, self).__init__(parent)

    def initStyleOption(self, option, index):
        # let the base class initStyleOption fill option with the default values
        super(SelectionColorDelegate,self).initStyleOption(option, index)
        # override what you need to change in option
        if option.state & QStyle.State_Selected:
            option.state &= ~ QStyle.State_Selected
            option.backgroundBrush = QBrush(QColor(100, 200, 100, 200))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)    
    treeWidget = QTreeWidget()
    treeWidget.setColumnCount(2)
    for i in range(5):
        item = QTreeWidgetItem(["Item %d"%i, "data" ])
        treeWidget.addTopLevelItem(item)
        for j in range(3):
            subItem = QTreeWidgetItem(["SubItem %d, %d"%(i,j), "subdata"])
            item.addChild(subItem)
        treeWidget.expandItem(item)

    treeWidget.setItemDelegate(SelectionColorDelegate(treeWidget))    
    treeWidget.show()   

    app.exec_()
    sys.exit()

Apparently, the background is also painted by QTreeView.drawRow before the delegate paint function is called, so for indented items, a part of that background keeps the default color.