QTabWidget selected tab text blank

Mr_S_J_Childerley | 2021-01-06 18:58:45 UTC | #1

I've used QTabWidget successfully on windows 10 in the past without an issue. However using on a mac running macOS 11.0.1 I am seeing the text of the selected tab, when it has focus, being blanked out.

The tab text (gets unblanked) only appears when the tab looses focus:

I suspect there is perhaps a style setting to fix this. However I would have expected the default to do sensible things.

Any ideas?

Version data as follows: PYQT_VERSION = 329986 PYQT_VERSION_STR = 5.9.2 QOpenGLVersionProfile = QOperatingSystemVersion = QT_VERSION = 329990 QT_VERSION_STR = 5.9.6

martin | 2021-01-06 20:17:47 UTC | #2

Hey there! I've made a little test application and ran it on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and the tabs appear to be working correctly there.

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QTabWidget, QApplication, QWidget

app = QApplication([])
tab = QTabWidget()

w = QWidget()
tab.addTab(w, 'Hello')

w = QWidget()
tab.addTab(w, 'Test')

w = QWidget()
tab.addTab(w, 'Another')

tab.show()

app.exec_()

...which shows the following (tested dark mode also) --

Can you try this test to rule out any issues specific to your application? If this example doesn't work I can try upgrading one of my machines to 11.0 myself. Or perhaps you can try PyQt5 5.15.2 (latest) ?

Mr_S_J_Childerley | 2021-01-06 21:01:50 UTC | #3

Thanks Martin, with your example I got the same. I'll try/attempt the upgrade to PyQt5 5.15.2

Appreciated.

Mr_S_J_Childerley | 2021-01-06 21:28:25 UTC | #4

Slightly against my better judgement I pip installed PyQt5 5.15.2 into the failing conda environment. Which fixed the issue. Not intending to make an installable version for a while, when I might regret this!

martin | 2021-01-07 08:12:06 UTC | #5

Ah great, glad that's fixed it -- I wasn't looking forward to upgrading my mac! :slight_smile:

I've leave a note that you've done this in your requirements.txt / docs or similar, so you don't forget when you come to build. Easy to lose hours on forgotten quick fixes!