The parser is written in C++14 and parses the supported dialect of QSS i.e. Qt's CSS system. This is not exactly the same as CSS3 (web standards) which is a superset of QSS. As Qt Widgets library does not expose the built-in parser, this library takes care of parsing.
Note: This library does not actually update widgets when properties are modified. This can however be done by writing appropriate wrappers on top of Qt widget classes.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
cd build
./test_qss
Parse QDarkStyleSheet and extract background color of QWidget:
QApplication a(argc, argv);
...
QString styleSheetLocation = QString(":qdarkstyle/dark/style.qss");
QFile styleSheetFile(styleSheetLocation);
if (!styleSheetFile.exists())
printf("Unable to set stylesheet, file not found\n");
else
{
QTextStream ts(&styleSheetFile);
styleSheetFile.open(QFile::ReadOnly | QFile::Text);
a.setStyleSheet(ts.readAll());
}
...
qss::Document document(qApp->styleSheet());
for (auto it = document.cbegin(); it < document.cend(); it++)
{
auto fragment = it->first;
if (fragment.selector().toString() != "QWidget") continue;
auto block = fragment.block();
for (auto it2 = block.cbegin(); it2 != block.cend(); it2++)
{
auto name = it2->first;
if (name != "background-color") continue;
auto value = it2->second.first;
qDebug() << value << "\n";
return value;
}
}