Uploaded image for project: 'Qt'
  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-48435

Document new link capturing methods in QtWebEngine

    XMLWordPrintable

Details

    • Suggestion
    • Resolution: Done
    • P2: Important
    • 5.6.0 RC
    • None
    • WebEngine
    • None
    • f8ac9f0eb1745648750493cfbb16eed0d859b212

    Description

      Where an HTML document is used as part of the user interface, and not to display external data, for example, when displaying a list of results, it is essential that link clicks can be delegated to the Qt app instead of being processed by the HTML handler engine.

      This is possible with the venerable QTextBrowser, and also with Qt WebKit (QWebPage::setLinkDelegationPolicy()).

      As far as I know, no such function exists in Qt WebEngine, which means that applications which use the page as part of the UI, cannot be migrated from WebKit to WebEngine. Actually, with only a little exageration, it seems that the latter does not allow much more than what could be done by calling system("chromium-browser")

      Attachments

        For Gerrit Dashboard: QTBUG-48435
        # Subject Branch Project Status CR V

        Activity

          People

            leenam Leena Miettinen
            medoc Jean-Francois Dockes
            Votes:
            1 Vote for this issue
            Watchers:
            5 Start watching this issue

            Dates

              Created:
              Updated:
              Resolved:

              Gerrit Reviews

                There are no open Gerrit changes