Reference Fallback Style
The following listing shows a fallback style similar to the one that StyleKit uses when a fallbackStyle is not explicitly set. It provides a basic appearance similar to the Basic style, and serves as the baseline for any properties not overridden by your style or its active theme.
Note: This listing may not reflect the exact fallback style shipped with the latest version of Qt. It is intended to illustrate how the controls are styled by default, which can be helpful when styling your own controls on top.
import QtQuick import Qt.labs.StyleKit BaseStyle { id: style /* Properties and Controls left unspecified in a Style will be read from Style.fallbackStyle * instead (that is, this file, unless the fallback style is changed). Here we can give the * properties some sensible defaults. */ /* Assign sensible light-theme colors to the controls. We intentionally avoid * binding to the OS palette (except for the accent color) because the fallback * style should provide a stable baseline for other styles and remain identical * and consistent across all platforms. Instead, it is the style developer’s * responsibility to bind individual colors to the palette if desired, and to * define separate themes for light and dark mode. */ readonly property color __baseBlack: "black" readonly property color __baseWhite: "white" readonly property color __backgroundDefault: Qt.darker(__baseWhite, 1.1) readonly property color __backgroundMuted: Qt.darker(__baseWhite, 1.2) readonly property color __backgroundSubtle: Qt.darker(__baseWhite, 1.3) readonly property color __strokeStrong: Qt.darker(__baseWhite, 1.6) readonly property color __strokeMuted: Qt.darker(__baseWhite, 1.4) readonly property color __textDefault: Qt.darker(__baseWhite, 1.9) readonly property color __textSubtle: Qt.darker(__baseWhite, 1.6) readonly property color __transparent: "transparent" readonly property real indicatorSize: 24 applicationWindow { background.color: __baseWhite } control { spacing: 5 padding: 5 background { radius: 2 implicitWidth: 100 implicitHeight: 40 border.width: 1 color: __backgroundDefault border.color: __strokeStrong } indicator { implicitWidth: style.indicatorSize implicitHeight: style.indicatorSize border.width: 1 color: __baseWhite border.color: __strokeStrong foreground { implicitWidth: Style.Stretch implicitHeight: Style.Stretch margins: 1 color: palette.accent image.color: palette.accent /* Note: don't set implicit size here, since the DelegateContainer will (and should) * fall back to use the size of the image if not set. So if we hard-code a size here, * it cannot be unset to be the size of the image (if any) again from the Style. */ } } text { color: __baseBlack } handle { implicitWidth: style.indicatorSize implicitHeight: style.indicatorSize radius: style.indicatorSize / 2 border.width: 1 color: __backgroundDefault border.color: __strokeStrong } checked { background.color: __backgroundSubtle } hovered { background.color: __backgroundMuted handle.color: __backgroundMuted } disabled { background.color: __baseWhite text.color: __textSubtle } } checkBox { background.visible: false indicator { foreground { color: __transparent visible: false image.source: "qrc:/qt-project.org/imports/QtQuick/Controls/Basic/images/check.png" } } text { alignment: Qt.AlignVCenter | Qt.AlignLeft } checked { indicator.foreground.visible: true } } comboBox { text.alignment: Qt.AlignVCenter background.implicitWidth: 150 indicator { color: __transparent border.width: 0 foreground { implicitWidth: 10 implicitHeight: 10 alignment: Qt.AlignCenter color: __transparent image.color: __textDefault image.fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectFit image.source: "qrc:/qt-project.org/imports/QtQuick/Controls/Basic/images/drop-indicator.png" } } } flatButton { background.visible: false hovered.background.visible: true } frame { background.color: Qt.darker(__baseWhite, 1.05) } groupBox { text.padding: 12 padding: 12 background.implicitHeight: 20 } itemDelegate { text.alignment: Qt.AlignVCenter | Qt.AlignLeft background { // Make it flat radius: 0 color: __baseWhite border.width: 0 shadow.visible: false } hovered.background.color: __backgroundDefault } label { background.visible: false } page { background.border.width: 0 } pane { background { implicitWidth: 200 implicitHeight: 200 color: __baseWhite } } popup { background { implicitWidth: 200 implicitHeight: 200 border.width: 1 } } progressBar { background.visible: false indicator.implicitWidth: 150 } radioButton { background.visible: false indicator { radius: 255 foreground { margins: 4 visible: false radius: 255 } } text.alignment: Qt.AlignVCenter | Qt.AlignLeft checked.indicator.foreground.visible: true } scrollBar { padding: 0 background { implicitHeight: 10 visible: false } indicator { implicitHeight: 10 radius: 255 foreground.radius: 255 foreground.color: __backgroundDefault } vertical { background.implicitWidth: 10 indicator.implicitWidth: 10 } hovered { indicator.foreground.color: __backgroundMuted } } scrollIndicator { background { implicitHeight: 6 visible: false } indicator { border.width: 0 implicitHeight: 6 radius: 255 foreground { margins: 0 radius: 255 color: __backgroundDefault } } vertical { background.implicitWidth: 6 indicator.implicitWidth: 6 } } slider { background { visible: false implicitWidth: 150 } indicator { implicitWidth: Style.Stretch implicitHeight: 8 radius: 8 foreground { radius: 7 } } } spinBox { text.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter | Qt.AlignVCenter indicator { implicitHeight: Style.Stretch border.width: 0 margins: 0 color: __transparent foreground { color: __transparent image.color: __textDefault image.fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectFit image.source: "qrc:/qt-project.org/imports/QtQuick/Controls/Basic/images/arrow-indicator.png" // Note: by setting a rotation, we cannot at the same time set the implicit size to // Stretch, since Stretch will be based on the unrotated geometry of the indicator. // So if the height of the indicator is different from the width, things will look wrong. implicitWidth: 10 implicitHeight: 10 alignment: Qt.AlignCenter } down { alignment: Qt.AlignLeft foreground.rotation: 90 } up { alignment: Qt.AlignRight foreground.rotation: -90 } } } switchControl { background.visible: false text.alignment: Qt.AlignVCenter indicator { implicitWidth: style.indicatorSize * 2 implicitHeight: style.indicatorSize alignment: Qt.AlignLeft | Qt.AlignVCenter radius: style.indicatorSize / 2 foreground { radius: style.indicatorSize / 2 color: __transparent } } checked { indicator.foreground.color: palette.accent } } tabBar { padding: 0 spacing: -1 // let tabButtons overlap slightly } tabButton { background { radius: 0 topLeftRadius: 2 topRightRadius: 2 } } textField { text.alignment: Qt.AlignVCenter background { implicitWidth: 150 gradient: null } } textInput { padding: 5 background { implicitWidth: 150 implicitHeight: 40 border.width: 1 color: __baseWhite } text { color: __baseBlack } } toolBar { background.implicitHeight: 40 } toolSeparator { padding: 2 background.visible: false indicator { implicitWidth: 30 implicitHeight: 1 border.width: 0 color: __strokeMuted foreground.visible: false } } }
See also Style.fallbackStyle and Property Resolution.
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