[Interest] FW: QWebview signals with dynamic web pages

[Murphy, Sean M.]

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> As far as I can understand from your explanation I think the sensor's values are update by Javascript. 
> Try to see in the page's source if there is a <script> element.
> Another tip: try Firefox + Firebug to debug the sensors web page and find out how it updates the on-screen values.

Yes, there is definitely javascript involved.  There are  few lines like:
  <script src="webtemp.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

So unfortunately I can't see the actual javascript code directly in the HTML.  I'll see if I can get Firebug up and running, but even if I do, will that actually help?  Is there any signal that gets fired off as javascript functions get evaluated?

Sean

>> I'm trying to read an 8-channel temperature sensor device that outputs its data via a web interface.  Viewing the 
>> device's web page via a normal web browser, or via QWebView::load(), I can see the temperatures correctly.  The
>> temperature values are "live" in that they automatically update about once a second, without the user having to
>> manually reload/refresh the browser.  My HTML skills are pretty minimal, so I'm not sure what magic it uses to
>> update those parameters, but I don't see any sort of <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> tag.
>> 
>> What I want to do is parse the HTML that comes back from the device and just grab the temperatures so that I can
>> timestamp them and log them to a file.  So I've got code that does the parsing correctly.  I've connected that code
>> up to the QWebView::loadFinished(bool) signal, but that only causes my parsing code to get triggered once, only when
>> my initial QWebView::load() finishes.
>> 
>> Is there some sort of signal that I can connect to in the QWeb* hierarchy that will get triggered everytime the
>> device's web page updates itself via whatever magic it's using?  I've tried QWebView::loadFinished() and
>> QWebPage::contentsChanged() / QWebPage::loadFinished() and QWebFrame::pageChanged  / QWebFrame::loadFinished(), but
>> no of those seem to get triggered.
>> 
>> I know I could just set up a QTimer and explicitly call QWebView::load() on my own, but that seems overkill, not to
>> mention it's going to make the web page have to redraw which looks ugly to the user.
 
 
 

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