[Interest] Porting from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine

[Jean-Francois Dockes]

Koehne Kai writes:
 > 
 > 
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org
 > > [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org]
 > > On Behalf Of Jean-Francois Dockes
 > > Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 8:18 PM
 > > To: Qt Interest
 > > Subject: [Interest] Porting from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine
 > > 
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > I am trying to port two GUI applications from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine
 > > (recoll and upplay).
 > > 
 > > I had a look at the porting page
 > > (https://wiki.qt.io/Porting_from_QtWebKit_to_QtWebEngine is that it ?),
 > > but I am blocking on an issue which does not seem to be mentionned: there
 > > does not seem to be a way to hijack QtWebEngine link clicks so that they
 > > are handled by the Qt C++ application code.
 > 
 > There's indeed no API for this so far. Maybe file a feature request?
 > 
 > 
 > If you control the content, you might consider using QtWebChannel as a bridge between the HTML and the C++ part.
 > 
 > Regards
 > 
 > Kai
 > 

Thanks for pointing out QtWebChannel. 

These are apps where part of the user interface is provided by a Web
browser component displaying all internal data, so that it should be
possible to replace the link disposition feature with a hybrid
Javascript/C++ approach, but this would be quite more complex than just
having a slot called when the user clicks a link...

I will create a feature request.

Cheers,

jf