[Interest] Does QtBrowserPlugin on Internet Explorer still work?

[Jori Liesenborgs]

Hi everyone,

I have a question regarding the use of the QtBrowserPlugin from 
qt-solutions. If there’s a more appropriate place to ask, please let me 
know, but for the time being I’ll just post it here.

When I build and install the ‘trivial’ example in Windows it works just 
fine in Firefox and Chrome (i.e. using the NPAPI interface) but not in 
Internet Explorer using the ActiveX interface. When I run Internet 
Explorer and surf to 
http://doc.qt.digia.com/solutions/4/qtbrowserplugin/qtbrowserplugin-example-trivial.html 
, I see [1] in which the area for the control is clearly indicated, but 
when I grant permission that area just disappears and nothing can be 
seen where the plugin should be.

Now, a bit of logging revealed that the constructor of the widget was in 
fact executed, so I tried adding a ‘show()’ command to the constructor. 
In the Internet Explorer window this doesn’t change a thing, but on the 
desktop this makes a white square area appear (see [2]). While this 
seems to indicate there’s just something wrong with embedding the widget 
or with the parent handle, it’s strange that that white area doesn’t 
show the text that should be displayed.

Now, I noticed that in the ActiveQt examples there’s also a browser 
example that seems to load an Internet Explorer ActiveX control for the 
actual browsing. When I use this browser to go to the ‘trivial’ example 
page, the plugin is displayed correctly (see [3]). So it seems that at 
least in some circumstances the control can work correctly.

Does anyone have an idea what could be going wrong here? And perhaps 
even how to fix it?

Thanks,
Jori

[1] http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~jori/trivial/trivial1.png
[2] http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~jori/trivial/trivial2.png
[3] http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~jori/trivial/trivial3.png