Backspace with a virtual keyboard in combination with WebView

MisjanePane

Hi,

I have written a virtyual keyboard to edit/enter text. This was not specific for WebView only but it only fails to work with WebView. It does work for instance for TextEdit.

What already works with a WebView

I'm able to show and hide the virtual keyboard
I'm able to add (append) text.

What doesn't work

removing text with the backspace button on my virtual keyboard. This does work on TextEdit {...} but not for WebView

When I click a button the qml calls some C++ code - a qml plugin - that sends an event to the focused object.

Code:

@ void VirtualkeyboardKeys::keyPressed(QString character) {

QObject* focusObject = QGuiApplication::focusObject();
QInputMethodEvent ev;

if (character == QString("backspace")) {
   ev.setCommitString("",-1,1);
   QCoreApplication::sendEvent(focusObject,&ev);
} else {
      ev.setCommitString(character);
      QCoreApplication::sendEvent(focusObject,&ev);
}

}
@

I'm using Qt 5.2.1

Any ideas? Thanks for the help