[Interest] QML WebView modules

[Konstantin Tokarev]

05.04.2017, 17:08, "Mark Tucker" <mark.tucker at airborne.aero>:
> 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 :)

You just clone this repo, checkout 5.5.1 and build with qmake

>
> 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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Regards,
Konstantin