[Interest] QML WebView modules
Mark Tucker
mark.tucker at airborne.aero
Wed Apr 5 16:08:35 CEST 2017
Ah, there's a 5.5.1 tag in there, presumably that's what I would need?
Now I need to read up on how to use this from git :)
Thanks
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru]
Sent: 05 April 2017 15:06
To: Mark Tucker <mark.tucker at airborne.aero>; Kai Koehne <kai.koehne at qt.io>; Nibedit Dey <nibedit.dev at gmail.com>; Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
Cc: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] QML WebView modules
05.04.2017, 17:03, "Mark Tucker" <mark.tucker at airborne.aero>:
> I'm not using the SDK installer - I compiled my own version of Qt from the 5.5.1 sources. There doesn't seem to be anything included in that tarball that is the QtWebView module.
>
> Is it a separate download?
I think you can only use git repo: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebview.git/
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru]
> Sent: 05 April 2017 15:02
> To: Mark Tucker <mark.tucker at airborne.aero>; Kai Koehne <kai.koehne at qt.io>; Nibedit Dey <nibedit.dev at gmail.com>; Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
> Cc: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] QML WebView modules
>
> 05.04.2017, 16:58, "Mark Tucker" <mark.tucker at airborne.aero>:
>> Where do I install it from? Is it a configure option?
>
> If you are using Qt SDK installer, you probably need to build it from source, as there is no binary component for 5.5.1 or earlier
>
>> Mark
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru]
>> Sent: 05 April 2017 14:53
>> To: Mark Tucker <mark.tucker at airborne.aero>; Kai Koehne <kai.koehne at qt.io>; Nibedit Dey <nibedit.dev at gmail.com>; Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
>> Cc: interest at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Interest] QML WebView modules
>>
>> 05.04.2017, 16:45, "Mark Tucker" <mark.tucker at airborne.aero>:
>>> Hi Kai,
>>>
>>> My problem is that despite having successfully compiled and installed both the qtwebkit and qtwebengine modules for Qt 5.5.1 on my desktop Linux platform, the QML statement
>>
>> You need to install QtWebView module
>>
>>> import QtWebView 1.0
>>>
>>> Reports as being uninstalled/not available when I attempt to run my QML app on my Linux platform. (Note that using 1.1 instead of 1.0 produces the same effect). This import works on my target Android platform.
>>>
>>> There does not appear to be a specific "qtwebview" folder/module within my Src folder for my Qt version.
>>>
>>> I ran configure with no options, i.e. literally just "./configure" with nothing added.
>>>
>>> I can live with having to have different import statements for the different platforms if I have to, was just wanting to check that I wasn't missing something stupid/obvious.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+mark.tucker=airborne.aero at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Kai Koehne
>>> Sent: 05 April 2017 12:21
>>> To: Nibedit Dey <nibedit.dev at gmail.com>; Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: interest at qt-project.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Interest] QML WebView modules
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Interest
>>>> [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-project.org]
>>>> [..]
>>>> With Qt 5.5 the Qt WebKit module is
>>>> deprecated:(https://wiki.qt.io/New-
>>>> Features-in-Qt-5.5#Deprecated_Functionality)
>>>>
>>>> QWebView uses WebKit as the backend.
>>>>
>>>> QWebEngineView uses Chromium as the backend.
>>>>
>>>> WebView with the same name has been defined in both WebKit and
>>>> WebEngine. Hence import statement varies.[I believe this is the source
>>>> of confusion ]
>>>>
>>>> import QtWebKit 3.0
>>>> import QtWebView 1.0
>>>
>>> Not exactly. The terminology is arguably confusing here, but the "QtWebView" import comes from the "Qt WebView" module (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebview-index.html), which is a module that abstracts different rendering engines (Qt WebEngine, native) away behind a simple API.
>>>
>>> So
>>>
>>> ---
>>> import QtWebView 1.0
>>>
>>> WebView {
>>> // ...
>>> }
>>> --
>>> should work both on mobile and desktop. On Android, iOS and WinRT the native browsers are embedded, on all the rest Qt WebEngine is used (if available).
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Kai
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>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Konstantin
>
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> Regards,
> Konstantin
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Konstantin
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