drop shadow effect on QPushButton text

Question

How do I set a drop-shadow effect on a QPushButton text?

I could set shadow on the entire QPushButton using QGraphicsDropShadowEffect, I however, am not able to find a way to directly set the effect of text inside the QButton.

Edit:

I tried the following, not sure if the syntax is correct

in the .qss file:

MyButton::text
{
    shadow: palette(dark);
}

I set the button's drop shadow effect by:

QGraphicsDropShadowEffect* effect = new QGraphicsDropShadowEffect( );
    effect->setBlurRadius( 5 );
    mStartButton->setGraphicsEffect( effect );

adding some code will be helpful to answer – Hariprasad Dec 12 '13 at 19:48 — Hariprasad, Dec 12 '13 at 19:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '13 at 20:01

Try this:

Set a QLabel iside QPushButton rather than simple text. Then apply shadow effect to the label.

You may need to add extra code for centering the label inside the pushbutton.

mStartButton->setText("");
QLabel *label = new QLabel(mStartButton);
label->setText("<b>Button</b>");
QGraphicsDropShadowEffect* effect = new QGraphicsDropShadowEffect( );
effect->setBlurRadius( 5 );
label ->setGraphicsEffect( effect );

drop shadow effect on QPushButton text

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