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Please review the following information to ensure ** the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 requirements ** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html. ** $QT_END_LICENSE$ ** ****************************************************************************/ /*! \module QtWebEngine \title Qt WebEngine Widgets C++ Classes \brief Provides a web browser engine as well as C++ classes to render and interact with web content To include the definitions of the module's classes, use the following directive: \snippet snippets/qtwebengine_build_snippet.qdoc 1 To link against the module, add this line to your \l qmake \c .pro file: \snippet snippets/qtwebengine_build_snippet.qdoc 0 */ /*! \page qtwebenginewidgets-index.html \title Qt WebEngine Widgets \ingroup modules \brief The Qt WebEngine Widgets module provides a web browser engine as well as C++ classes to render and interact with web content. Qt WebEngine Widgets provides a Web browser engine that makes it easy to embed content from the World Wide Web into your Qt application. Qt WebEngine Widgets provides facilities for rendering of HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents, styled using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripted with JavaScript. In addition to providing pure rendering features, HTML documents can be made fully editable to the user through the use of the \c{contenteditable} attribute on HTML elements. Qt WebEngine is based on the Chromium project. More information about Chromium itself can be found on the \l{http://www.chromium.org} {Chromium Project} Web site. \section1 Including In Your Project To include the definitions of the module's classes, use the following directive: \snippet snippets/qtwebengine_build_snippet.qdoc 1 To link against the module, add this line to your \l qmake \c .pro file: \snippet snippets/qtwebengine_build_snippet.qdoc 0 \section1 Notes \note Web site icons, also known as "FavIcons", are currently not supported on Windows. We plan to address this in a future release. \section1 Architecture Before an application can use the Qt WebEngine Widgets classes, it must call the static initialization method for the module. \snippet snippets/simple/main.cpp Initializing QWebEngineWidgets The easiest way to render content is through the QWebEngineView class. As a widget it can be embedded into your forms or a graphics view, and it provides convenience functions for downloading and rendering web sites. \snippet snippets/simple/main.cpp Using QWebEngineView QWebEngineView is used to view Web pages. An instance of QWebEngineView has one QWebEnginePage. QWebEnginePage provides access to the document structure in a page, describing features such as frames, the navigation history, and the undo/redo stack for editable content. Common web browser features, defaults and other settings can be configured through the QWebEngineSettings class. It is possible to provide defaults for all QWebEnginePage instances through the default settings. Individual attributes can be overridden by the page specific settings object. \section1 Netscape Plugin Support \note Netscape plugin support is only available on desktop platforms. Since WebEngine supports the Netscape Plugin API, Qt applications can display Web pages that embed common plugins on platforms for which those plugins are available. To enable plugin support, the user must have the appropriate binary files for those plugins installed and the \l{QWebEngineSettings::PluginsEnabled} attribute must be enabled for the application. The following locations are searched for plugins: \table \header \li Linux/Unix (X11) \row \li \list \li \c{.mozilla/plugins} in the user's home directory \li \c{.netscape/plugins} in the user's home directory \li System locations, such as \list \li \c{/usr/lib/browser/plugins} \li \c{/usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins} \li \c{/usr/lib/firefox/plugins} \li \c{/usr/lib64/browser-plugins} \li \c{/usr/lib/browser-plugins} \li \c{/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins} \li \c{/usr/local/netscape/plugins} \li \c{/opt/mozilla/plugins} \li \c{/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins} \li \c{/opt/netscape/plugins} \li \c{/opt/netscape/communicator/plugins} \li \c{/usr/lib/netscape/plugins} \li \c{/usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc5} \li \c{/usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6} \li \c{/usr/lib64/netscape/plugins} \li \c{/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins} \endlist \li Locations specified by environment variables: \list \li \c{$MOZILLA_HOME/plugins} \li \c{$MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH} \li \c{$QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH} \endlist \endlist \endtable \table \header \li Windows \row \li \list \li The user's \c{Application Data\Mozilla\plugins} directory \li Standard system locations of plugins for Quicktime, Flash, etc. \endlist \endtable \table \header \li Mac OS X \row \li \list \li \c{Library/Internet Plug-Ins} in the user's home directory \li The system \c{/Library/Internet Plug-Ins} directory \endlist \endtable \section1 Examples There are several Qt WebEngine Widgets examples located in the \l{Qt WebEngine Widgets Examples} page. \section1 License Information //FIXME: check if we are allowed to use the name chromium here or if it is considered promotional use. This is a snapshot of the integration of Chromium into Qt. The exact version information can be found in the \c{VERSION} file supplied with Qt. Qt Commercial Edition licensees that wish to distribute applications that use the Qt WebEngine module need to be aware of their obligations under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). Developers using the Open Source Edition can choose to redistribute the module under the appropriate version of the GNU LGPL. \legalese // FIXME: add correct licensing terms for chromium / blink. The one copied from QtWebKit does not apply. \endlegalese */ /*! \group webengine-widgetexamples \title Qt WebEngine Widgets Examples \brief Examples demonstrating the Qt WebEngine Widgets usage \ingroup all-examples Qt provides an integrated Web browser component based on Chromium, the popular open source browser engine. These examples and demonstrations show a range of different uses for Qt WebEngine, from displaying Web pages within a Qt user interface to an implementation of a basic function Web browser. */