How to change the color of a QAction that is in a toolbar?

Question

I have a toolbar or there are several QActions. I would like to change the color of the QAction when it is selected so that the user can see the chosen action.

The problem is that QAction is not a QWidget so we can not use stylesheet. Is there a way to get around this problem? Or would it be better to declare QPushButton instead of QAction in my toolbar?

I would like, for example, that if I click on a QAction it is pushed against the others. I have 6 QAction declared in my toolbar.

Answer 1

You have to checkeable the QAction with:

your_action->setCheckable(true)

or using Qt Designer

and then set qss with QToolButton:

QToolButton:checked {background-color: red; }