Unsolved How to take screen captures
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I would like to use Qt's QWebEngine module to take screen captures from an URL. However, although the documentation section on
QWebEnginePage
listsQWebEnginePage::print
andQWebEnginePage::printToPdf
, it doesn't mention any way to save pages to image files.Does anyone know if Qt's QWebEngine module can be used to take screen captures of websites?
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@rmam
I would not have thought so.Though I could be wrong. :) -
You need to render the webEngineView:
QSize size(1024,800); view.resize(size); QImage image(size, QImage::Format_ARGB32); QPainter painter(&image); view->render(&painter); // render the webEngineView painter.end();
From my experience, the raw result is not very good, need a blurr effect.
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@mpergand thanks for the help. I've managed to get a minimal working example to run based on your code snippet.
However, it appears that this approach involves creating a window. Is it possible to take a screenshot without opening a window?
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Does anyone have a suggestion?
I have the very same problem: How do I render a QWebEngineView that has received content via QWebEngineView::setHtml().
I do not want to show the Widget.Snippet:
QImage img(region_width, region_height, QImage::Format_ARGB32); QWebEngineView* webEngineView = new QWebEngineView(); webEngineView->resize(region_width, region_height); webEngineView->setStyleSheet("background:red"); QWebEnginePage* webEnginePage = webEngineView->page(); webEnginePage->settings()>setAttribute(QWebEngineSettings::ScreenCaptureEnabled, true); webEngineView->setHtml("<p style=\"background-color:#FFF067;color:green\"> TEXT</p>"); QPainter p(&img); webEngineView->render(&p, QPoint(0, 0), QRegion(regionSize)); p.end(); img.save("img.png", "PNG", 80);
The result is always an entirely white image, regardless of the given background color, the
<p>
does not get rendered.