[Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

Edward Welbourne edward.welbourne at qt.io
Wed May 22 10:36:33 CEST 2019


Kai Köhne (21 May 2019 12:24) wrote:
> Anyhow, I'm not sure the QtWebView API is actually capable enough to
> cater for Qt Assistant. One obvious challenge is that you've to pass a
> url to the engine that it can actually resolve. This probably means
> either extracting the html in the .qch files to a local directory, or
> even running a minimal local web server.

That sounds like a job for qthttpserver, whose specific goal is to
support minimal web-serving functionality.  Off the top of my head (as
one of its reviewers, not authors), my guess is that it should already
be able to make it trivial to serve content out of qrc.

	Eddy.



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