QTextBrowser::anchorClicked not emitted for external links?

[Robert Hairgrove]

It looks like it is only emitted for internal links. I have a slot attached to this signal which is called when an internal link is clicked, but it is not called for external links.

What I would like to do is to ask/prompt the user on a per-link basis if they want to open an external link. I have seen the forum topic "QTextBrowser::anchorClicked not emitted" from about two years ago, but I am using the standard QTextBrowser and not a subclass of it.

I know that I can set the openExternalLinks property, but how to do it on a per-link basis if the signal is never emitted?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Set openExternalLinks to false, connect to anchorClicked and then do your decision if you want to open the link or not there.

[Robert Hairgrove]

@Christian-Ehrlicher Thanks, I've gotten that far by now, too. The problems I still have are these:

1. I can set the openExternalLinks property to true in the slot, but the user must click on the link once again in order to open the link;
2. Once I have set openExternalLinks property to true, the slot is never called again except for internal links.

I can live with this if necessary. I show the URL to each external link in the status bar, so maybe this is enough. But is there a better way? IOW, how do I open the external link and leave openExternalLinks set to false?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

This is not what I wrote.
You should set openExternalLinks to false, connect to anchorClicked and when you then decide to open the link then simply call setSource with the url you want.

[Robert Hairgrove]

@Christian-Ehrlicher : When I call setSource with the external URL after asking the user whether to open the link or not, and the user cklicks "OK", the QTextBrowser widget shows a blank page and does not open the internet browser.

Or am I missing something else? For example, is there a way of opening the external link without calling setSource?

[Robert Hairgrove]

OK, problem is solved ... after looking at the sources, I needed to call QDesktopServices::openUrl() (which is what QTextBrowser does) and additionally setSource() with the existing source URL of the text browser in order to make it work (i.e. in order to avoid the blank page in QTextBrowser).

Thanks to all!

[Christian Ehrlicher]

The please mark the topic as solved :)

[Robert Hairgrove]

@Christian-Ehrlicher Done (already)!