Milian Wolff

Let’s assume you want to display the logo of your company in your Qt app. Most probably that logo has just single color with an alpha channel.But: Having the color hard coded in the image is not nice, there are users (like me!) out there, who use a custom (dark!) color scheme. Meaning: If your logo is black/dark and assumes a bright background and you just embed it blindly in your app, I probably won’t see it since the background will be dark in my case.

Here is a solution for the simple case of a mono-colored PNG with an alpha channel which I came up with:

  QLabel* label = new QLabel;
  // load your image
  QImage img(QString("..."));
  // morph it into a grayscale image
  img = img.alphaChannel();
  // the new color we want the logo to have
  QColor foreground = label->palette().foreground().color();
  // now replace the colors in the image
  for(int i = 0; i < img.colorCount(); ++i) {
    foreground.setAlpha(qGray(img.color(i)));
    img.setColor(i, foreground.rgba());
  }
  // display the new logo
  label->setPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(img));
  label->show();

This seems to work just fine for me. YMMV.