[Interest] Running Qt app in a browser
Tony Rietwyk
tony at rightsoft.com.au
Tue Apr 26 04:33:26 CEST 2016
K. Frank said:
> Hi Larry!
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Is it possible to run a Qt app in a browser? I have googled for this,
> > and found some hits, but none seen like they ever worked out. The most
> > promising seems to be http://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Google_Native_Client
> > but the readme link is broken, so that's discouraging. Anyone have any
> > pointers on if this can be done and if so how?
>
> This doesn't answer your question, but as an aside, there is a
web-application
> framework called Wt:
>
> https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
>
> Wt shares some of the Qt philosophy -- application code (and the Wt
library)
> is written in C++, it is widget-based, and it uses signals and slots. I
don't know
> Wt's history, but I think Qt that significantly influenced the design of
Wt.
>
> Of course, high-level similarities notwithstanding, the details are
entirely
> different. You couldn't, for example, compile a Qt application into a Wt
> application.
>
> But if you like Qt and were starting a new web-application development
> project, Wt could make sense, and if you really needed to port a Qt
> application to the web, porting from Qt to Wt would still be a substantive
> port, but the similar philosophy might make the port a little smoother.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> Good luck!
>
> K. Frank
I am currently creating a Wt based web application that reuses many of our
non-GUI Qt based classes. I works really well based on the prototypes done
so far.
Theoretically, you could create a QPaintEngine that uses the WPainter
interface to draw GUI objects, but I haven't investigated that.
Tony
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