[Qt-interest] Qt Webkit and Google Earth Plugin?

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

Hello,

does the Google Earth Plugin work in Qt Webkit? I am currently trying to display e.g.

  http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/earth/

in my QWebView.

Just after instantiating my QApplication object - and before anything else - I do have:

  QWebSettings::globalSettings()->setAttribute(QWebSettings::PluginsEnabled, true);

This /does/ make a difference, because the Flash video on the site above ("Featured Video") plays fine! (Setting PluginsEnabled to false does indeed not load the Flash plugin).

But unfortunatelly where the Google Earth is supposed to displayed I get a static image, saying that

"Your browser does not support the Google Earth Plugin
Please try again with one of these browsers:
Google Chrome 1.0+
Internet Explorer 6+
Firefox 2.0+
Flock 1.0+"

(The URL above does work on my Windows XP machine, in Firefox 3.6 and IE 7).


Oh and just now I have installed Safari on Windows XP, and this browser renders the *same* message! :( So apparently Google Earth Plugin does not support (Q)WebKit on Windows. Will recompile my code on my Mac tonight and see whether that makes a difference: according to http://earth.google.com/intl/en/plugin/ Safari 3.1+ is at least supported on Mac OS X (so maybe that plugin then also works with QtWebkit, at least on Mac)...

But then again, http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/earth/documentation/#installing_the_google_earth_plugin mentions that "Although the plugin and API may work correctly on other browsers that support NPAPI with npruntime extensions, these browsers are not officially supported." (whatever that means, I am not browser plugin expert). So maybe there are any tweaks how to make the plugin work anyway with Qt Webkit? Where does Qt Webkit look for its plugins anyway (I am very new to that class)? According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2139983/add-a-new-plugins-path-to-qtwebkit they are "stored in the Mozilla Firefox plugins directory or the standard plugins directories". So how is the "Mozilla Firefox plugin" directory located, where is the "standard plugin directory" (the one like %QTDIR%/plugins? I did not see any subfolder like 'webkit' or the like.)?


Any other experience? A Google search does not come up with much (except some other guys asking the same question in Qt Forum etc.)

Or does anyone know whether it is possible to remote-control Google Earth (the application, not the plugin) on Mac, just like on Windows with the http://earth.google.com/comapi/ (which off course is "Windows only")? And apparently http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/earth/documentation/ (the "JavaScript API") is the way to go anyway, the COM API does not seem to receive much love anymore...

Thanks,
  Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH
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