How can I make a Qt widget ignore style sheets set on parent widgets?

Question

When adding a QComboBox control in Qt Designer, I get a terrible looking, non-native control, see:

http://curiouschap.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/stack_qcombobox_question.png [as a newbie, SO wouldn't let me insert the image]

On digging further, it turns out that two of the parent controls, QParentWindow and QStackedWidget, have style sheets that QComboBox is inheriting. If I delete the custom styles, then I get a native QComboBox like the one on the left.

How can I have QComboBox (and widgets generally) NOT inherit parent styles? Or, how can I create a style for, say, QParentWindow, and do it so that it's local only and does not cascade?

Answer 1

I don't think you can prevent it from cascading. But by using more specific selectors in your stylesheet, maybe you could define properties only for your QParentWindow class or specific object.