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It is possible to embed an external program in QWidget?

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    Hi!..
    Title talks.. is there a way to make it? i have created an external application (single .exe file) that i want to call and embed into my QWidget or QMainWindow ...

    is this possible?
    Thanks!!

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      Hi,

      The first step is to get the winId of your external application then use QWindow::fromWinId and finally QWidget::createWindowContainer.

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