How to draw colored text on QGraphicsScene?

Question

I was looking for options like QGraphicsTextItem::setPen(), or even QFont::setColor() or QFont::setForegroundColor(). None of them exi

Answer 1

Are you looking for a combination of setPlainText() and setDefaultTextColor()?

http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.7/qgraphicstextitem.html#setPlainText

http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.7/qgraphicstextitem.html#setDefaultTextColor

If not, I'm not sure I understand your question...

Answer 2

scene.addText(tr("Hello World"))->setDefaultTextColor(Qt::white);

Answer 3

QGraphicsTextItem has a palette method which returns a QPalette and QPalette has the setColor method which takes a role.

void QPalette::setColor ( ColorRole role, const QColor & color )

The role you want is

QPalette::Text  The foreground color used with Base. 
This is usually the same as the WindowText, in which case it must provide 
good contrast with Window and Base.