Qt5 - setting background color to QPushButton and QCheckBox

Question

I\'m trying to change the background color of a QAbstractButton (either a QPushButton or QCheckBox) in Qt5 and having zero luck.

This does nothing:

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Answer 1

I've struggled with same problem. You need to choose QPalette::Button instead of QPalette::Window. Qt reference says this: QPaletteButton - The general button background color. This background can be different from Window as some styles require a different background color for buttons. So I solved it this way:

        QPalette pal=this->palette(); \\"this" is my derived button class
        pal.setColor(QPalette::Window, style.background);
        QColor col=style.background; \\ my style wrapper, returns QColor
        this->setAutoFillBackground(true);
        this->setPalette(pal);