QCustomGradientText
Text filled with a gradient.
The headline treatment every landing page wants and QSS cannot do: Qt stylesheets have no text-fill gradient, so the only route is painting the text with a gradient pen.
Optionally animated, sliding the gradient along the text. The animation is off by default - a permanently shimmering headline is a distraction, and it costs a repaint per frame.
Reuses the multi-stop CSV convention from QCustomGradientPicker, so a gradient authored there drops straight in.
At a glance
| Tier | Free (GPLv3) |
| Import | from Custom_Widgets.QCustomGradientText import QCustomGradientText |
| Qt Designer | Yes — drag it from the palette |
Quick start
from Custom_Widgets.QCustomGradientText import QCustomGradientText
widget = QCustomGradientText()
Dark theme
Colours come from the design tokens, so the widget follows the app theme with no extra work.
Properties
Every property below is settable in code and in Qt Designer.
| Property | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|
text | string | — |
stopsCsv | string | 0:#2563eb,1:#a855f7 |
angle | int | 0 |
animated | bool | False |
animationSpeed | int | 40 |
fontScale | float | 1.6 |
bold | bool | True |
alignment | enum: left/center/right`` | center |
wordWrap | bool | False |
Signals
| Signal |
|---|
clicked() |
Methods
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
alignment(*args, **kwargs) | Alignment. |
angle(*args, **kwargs) | Angle. |
animated(*args, **kwargs) | Animated. |
animationSpeed(*args, **kwargs) | Animation speed. |
bold(*args, **kwargs) | Bold. |
clicked(...) | Clicked. |
fontScale(*args, **kwargs) | Font scale. |
gradientFor(rect) | The gradient across a rect, including the animation offset. |
isAnimating() | Return whether the widget is animating. |
setStops(stops) | Replace the gradient stops. Fewer than two is rejected. |
start() | Start. |
stop() | Stop. |
stops() | Stops. |
stopsCsv(*args, **kwargs) | Stops csv. |
text(*args, **kwargs) | Text. |
wordWrap(*args, **kwargs) | Word wrap. |
Runnable example
A complete app using this widget lives at examples/PySide6/QCustomGradientText/main.py.
Related
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