How Can I Prevent Qt Designer from Applying QPalette to QComboBox - Python

Question

Qt Designer builds a QComboBox that apparently prohibits an editable QComboBox from highlighting when a user double-clicks on the text displayed in the window. I’d like to have the text highlighted when double clicking in it.

After converting the .ui file to a Python script, I found that Qt Designer created a rather long QPalette that it applied to the QComboBox. After I commented out all of the lines of code that builds and applies the palette, the QComboBox behaved as I hoped (highlighted when double-clicked).

I don’t want to have to comment out the lines of code that Qt Designer created every time I make a change to the GUI. There are two options to fix the issue that I can think of, but I don’t have a solution for either one.

1. Prevent Qt Designer from building the palette via settings within Qt Designer.
2. Undo or reset the palette in my Python script.

Is there a solution to my issue?

Here is the palette Qt Designer creates.

palette = QtGui.QPalette()
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.WindowText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Button, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Text, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.ButtonText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Base, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Window, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Highlight, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.HighlightedText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.PlaceholderText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.WindowText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Button, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Text, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.ButtonText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Base, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Window, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Highlight, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.HighlightedText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.PlaceholderText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.WindowText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Button, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Text, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.ButtonText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Base, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Window, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 120, 215))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Highlight, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.HighlightedText, brush)
brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0))
brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern)
palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.PlaceholderText, brush)
self. myComboBox.setPalette(palette)

Answer 1

I'm posting this so that others can quickly see there is a solution. @musicamante solved my issue with his comment on how to reset the "Palette" property in Qt Designer.