[PySide] QLabel vs QWebView for simple html display

[Sean Fisk]

Looks great! Thanks for sharing your approach. Keep in mind that if the
HTML fragment is untrusted and doesn’t have an img tag with a
srcattribute, your app will crash on an
AttributeError. Tuple unpacking could make the for loop code a little more
readable:

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'img':
            for attr_name, attr_value in attrs:
                if attr_name == 'src':
                    self.imageUrl = attr_value

I like the use of built-in libraries. I used requests and lxml because I am
using them for a large project and already knew how to use them, but they
are definitely overkill for this.


--
Sean Fisk


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx <frank at ohufx.com>wrote:

>  just to follow up, here is what I have done so far (tried to stay away
> from external libraries as I will have to distribute the app):
>
> http://pastebin.com/VSjYBrSF
>
> This seems to work for me but am happy to hear any comments on this
> approach.
>
>
> Cheers,
> frank
>
>
> On 12/11/13 21:13, Sean Fisk wrote:
>
>  Hi Frank,
>
> I think it depends whether the HTML dictates the layout or you would like
> to dictate the layout:
>
>    - HTML dictates layout → Use the web view.
>    - I want to dictate the layout → Parse the HTML to extract the URL,
>    download the image manually, and put it into a QLabel.
>
> Also remember that if you would like to distribute this and bundle
> PySide/Qt, using WebKit will add a significant size to your executable. If
> you truly need it, include it. However, for this, I don’t think it’s
> necessary.
>
> From what you have said, it sounds like you would like to dictate the
> layout. The process isn’t exactly simple, but it’s doable in not too many
> lines. Off the top of my head:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import sys
> from PySide import QtGuiimport requestsimport lxml.html
> def main(argv):
>     app = QtGui.QApplication(argv)
>     widget = QtGui.QWidget()
>     layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(widget)
>     html = '''<p><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: #993300;"><img style="margin-right: 15px; vertical-align: top;" src="https://pypi.python.org/static/images/python-3.png" alt="announcements" /><cite>some text that is pulled from a website but which will be quite simple.</cite></span></span><img src="http://placekitten.com/200/100" /></p>'''  # NOPEP8
>     doc = lxml.html.fragment_fromstring(html)
>     for img_src_attribute in doc.xpath('//img/@src'):
>         response = requests.get(img_src_attribute)
>         pixmap = QtGui.QPixmap()
>         pixmap.loadFromData(response.content)
>         label = QtGui.QLabel()
>         label.setPixmap(pixmap)
>         layout.addWidget(label)
>     widget.show()
>     widget.raise_()
>     return app.exec_()
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))
>
>  ... which yields...
> [image: Inline image 2]
>  I didn't address the issue of transparent backgrounds, etc., because I'm
> not sure exactly what's going on there. But all three of the widgets
> on-screen are QLabels, so they should be able to do anything a QLabel can
> do.
>
>  Obviously, do some more error checking than I did if you are pulling
> this from a website with untrusted data. Let me know if you need help with
> that. Hope this helps!
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>
>
>  --
> Sean Fisk
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx <frank at ohufx.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a QLabel in my app that displays some very simple html code
>> pulled from a website.
>>
>> So far I have been using it successfully as a sort of news feed, but now
>> I need to display an image from a url as well, which QLabel can't do
>> afaik.
>>
>> So I had a go with QWebView but that just won't be have the same as
>> QLabel when it comes to background colour (tried to set it to be
>> transparent), sizes, size policies etc.
>> I'm also getting some redraw problems when the QWebView is set to a
>> transparent background.
>>
>> Here is some test code:
>> http://pastebin.com/cSizj9ET
>>
>>
>> Is it the right approach to force QWebView to behave like QLabel for the
>> sole reason of being able to display an image via html? Or is there a
>> simpler way of doing this?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> frank
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>
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