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@@ -26,14 +26,13 @@
/*!
\class QWebEngineView
- \since 4.4
\brief The QWebEngineView class provides a widget that is used to view and edit
web documents.
\ingroup advanced
\inmodule QtWebEngine
- QWebEngineView is the main widget component of the Qt WebKit web browsing module.
+ QWebEngineView is the main widget component of the Qt WebEngine web browsing module.
It can be used in various applications to display web content live from the
Internet.
@@ -55,10 +54,7 @@
The page() function returns a pointer to the web page object. See
\l{Elements of QWebEngineView} for an explanation of how the web page
- is related to the view. To modify your web view's settings, you can access
- the QWebEngineSettings object with the settings() function. With QWebEngineSettings,
- you can change the default fonts, enable or disable features such as
- JavaScript and plugins.
+ is related to the view.
The title of an HTML document can be accessed with the title() property.
Additionally, a web site may also specify an icon, which can be accessed
@@ -78,25 +74,18 @@
modification of action properties such as \l{QAction::}{text} or
\l{QAction::}{icon}.
- A QWebEngineView can be printed onto a QPrinter using the print() function.
- This function is marked as a slot and can be conveniently connected to
- \l{QPrintPreviewDialog}'s \l{QPrintPreviewDialog::}{paintRequested()}
- signal.
-
If you want to provide support for web sites that allow the user to open
new windows, such as pop-up windows, you can subclass QWebEngineView and
reimplement the createWindow() function.
\section1 Elements of QWebEngineView
- QWebEngineView also consists of a QWebEnginePage.
- It is possible to use QWebEnginePage without using QWebEngineView,
- if you do not require QWidget attributes. Nevertheless, Qt WebKit depends
- on QtGui, so you should use a QApplication instead of QCoreApplication.
+ QWebEngineView contains a QWebEnginePage, which in turn allows access to the
+ QWebEngineHistory in the page's context.
- \sa {Previewer Example}, {WebEngine Tab Browser Example}, {Form Extractor Example},
- {Google Chat Example}, {WebEngine Fancy Browser Example}
*/
+// FIXME: reintroduce the following when we have proper names for the examples.
+// \sa {WebEngine Tab Browser Example}, {WebEngine Fancy Browser Example}
/*!
@@ -147,7 +136,7 @@
The \a html is loaded immediately; external objects are loaded asynchronously.
- When using this method, WebKit assumes that external resources such as
+ When using this method, Qt WebEngine assumes that external resources such as
JavaScript programs or style sheets are encoded in UTF-8 unless otherwise
specified. For example, the encoding of an external script can be specified
through the charset attribute of the HTML script tag. Alternatively, the
@@ -239,33 +228,12 @@
\sa pageAction()
*/
-/*
- \property QWebEngineView::textInteractionFlags
- \brief how the view should handle user input
-
- Specifies how the user can interact with the text on the page.
-*/
-
-
/*!
\property QWebEngineView::zoomFactor
- \since 4.5
\brief the zoom factor for the view
*/
/*!
- \property QWebEngineView::renderHints
- \since 4.6
- \brief the default render hints for the view
-
- These hints are used to initialize QPainter before painting the Web page.
-
- QPainter::TextAntialiasing and QPainter::SmoothPixmapTransform are enabled by default.
-
- \sa QPainter::renderHints()
-*/
-
-/*!
\fn bool QWebEngineView::findText(const QString &subString, QWebEnginePage::FindFlags options)
Finds the specified string, \a subString, in the page, using the given \a options.
@@ -334,10 +302,6 @@
\note If the createWindow() method of the associated page is reimplemented, this
method is not called, unless explicitly done so in the reimplementation.
- \note In the cases when the window creation is being triggered by JavaScript, apart from
- reimplementing this method application must also set the JavaScriptCanOpenWindows attribute
- of QWebEngineSettings to true in order for it to get called.
-
\sa QWebEnginePage::createWindow()
*/