[p4] p4v 2007.3 and Qt "styles"

[Stephen Vance]

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Steve

Rick Macdonald wrote:
> I've just switch to the latest p4v, 2007.3. The default style is sickly 
> pale looking to me. Too little contrast between widgets and frames, and 
> the whole thing is light, bright, and hard on my eyes.
>
> The command line -style argument seems a bit flakey. Most styles, such 
> as -style=sgi don't seem to do anything. In fact, other than "cde" and 
> "motif", every other style looks the same. Even -style=foobar changes 
> from the default to what you get with the other options such as 
> -style=windows.
>
> Anyway, this is fine except when p4v launches the merge tool. It doesn't 
> pass the style setting on the command line:
>
> rickm     6005  0.6  0.7  34288 15000 pts/4    S    10:02   0:00 
> /home/rickm/SCM/GCTSCM/sccs2p4/tools/p4v-2007.3.151553/bin/p4v.bin 
> -merge -nb //gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.01/xy2xy.F#1 -nl 
> //gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.04/xy2xy.F#2 -nr 
> /home/rickm/SCM/GCTSCM/sccs2p4/tools/cvs2p4/convdir-main/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/xp/xy2xy.F 
> -nm Merge file used for resolve -ll Source: -rl Target: -C none 
> /tmp/rickm(p4v)/timshel_localhost_1666/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.01/xy2xy#1(BASE)[0].F 
> /tmp/rickm(p4v)/timshel_localhost_1666/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.04/xy2xy(THEIR)[0].F 
> /home/rickm/SCM/GCTSCM/sccs2p4/tools/cvs2p4/convdir-main/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/xp/xy2xy.F 
> /tmp/rickm(p4v)/timshel_localhost_1666/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.04/xy2xy(MERGE)[0].F
>
> I realize this is more of a Qt question, but does anybody know how to 
> get a style setting to the merge tool when launched by p4v?
>
> Rick
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