Opening external application and embed it without opening application out of application
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@Thank-You said in Opening external application and embed it without opening application out of application:
I came to know that Qtwebkit isn't that much supported by big services:
Use MSVC and Qt WebEngine
@Christian-Ehrlicher
Sorry I forgot to mention for MINGW. I will update question.
But I am not actually sure that we can embed another application inside widget without opening it as application but it is only my thought 😂😂. Can we do it????.Let's make QT free or It will go forever
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@Christian-Ehrlicher
Sorry I forgot to mention for MINGW. I will update question.
But I am not actually sure that we can embed another application inside widget without opening it as application but it is only my thought 😂😂. Can we do it????.@Thank-You
@Christian-Ehrlicher is suggesting that a much more Qt solution is not to try to run some external Firefox browser program but rather to use Qt WebEngine which is a Chromium engine you can use as a widget in your application. It's an awful neater. However, it is true that under Windows it means you would need to use MSVC toolchain instead of MinGW. -
@Thank-You
@Christian-Ehrlicher is suggesting that a much more Qt solution is not to try to run some external Firefox browser program but rather to use Qt WebEngine which is a Chromium engine you can use as a widget in your application. It's an awful neater. However, it is true that under Windows it means you would need to use MSVC toolchain instead of MinGW. -
@JonB Yes that would be good choice. I couldn't use it because some dependencies are compiled with mingw only and can only be used with them.
Can we do it????.
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@Thank-You No, you cannot use Qt WebEngine with MinGW.
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@JonB
I guess you misunderstood my question
I mean can we embed other application in QT inside widget without showing it up in another window@Thank-You
Probably depends on the application, don't know whether there are issues with FireFox, and I don't use Windows.Since you appear to say you got one or other of your code examples from somewhere, why don't you reference where that was? If that was an example of embedding, surely that code would have been tested as working, I imagine.
A post from 2009, https://www.qtcentre.org/threads/23290-Embedded-browser-in-QT, answers
Is it possible to create a QWindow (or something like it) and embed a browser in this window?
The browser could be chosen by the user, IE, Firefox, Chrome...
with
The answer is "it depends but in general no".
I don't know if that still applies....
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@Thank-You
Probably depends on the application, don't know whether there are issues with FireFox, and I don't use Windows.Since you appear to say you got one or other of your code examples from somewhere, why don't you reference where that was? If that was an example of embedding, surely that code would have been tested as working, I imagine.
A post from 2009, https://www.qtcentre.org/threads/23290-Embedded-browser-in-QT, answers
Is it possible to create a QWindow (or something like it) and embed a browser in this window?
The browser could be chosen by the user, IE, Firefox, Chrome...
with
The answer is "it depends but in general no".
I don't know if that still applies....
@JonB
It's limereport
https://limereport.ru/en/index.phpAlmost a year ago I built it with mingw and stuck with it.
Thanks for your suggestion.whether there are issues with FireFox
No I don't mean firefox specific. Any browser.
Although this is out of context but,
If you have used edge , then each tab is considered as separate window and usingALT + TABit shows a lots of windows opened. If I got this solution I could use it there too and make it as unified so it would be easier with it too.Let's make QT free or It will go forever
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@JonB
It's limereport
https://limereport.ru/en/index.phpAlmost a year ago I built it with mingw and stuck with it.
Thanks for your suggestion.whether there are issues with FireFox
No I don't mean firefox specific. Any browser.
Although this is out of context but,
If you have used edge , then each tab is considered as separate window and usingALT + TABit shows a lots of windows opened. If I got this solution I could use it there too and make it as unified so it would be easier with it too.@Thank-You
I updated my previous post with some (potentially bad) news.I don't see anything in your "LimeReport" which has anything to do with embedding an external application into a Qt UI/widget, so i don't know what connection to your application is. Since it appears that you have its source code, why aren't you integrating it into your code (it says "Pure Qt4/Qt5 compatible code") rather than something about trying to run Firefox?
I would start out Googling for
qt embed external applicationto assess what might be possible. -
@Thank-You
I updated my previous post with some (potentially bad) news.I don't see anything in your "LimeReport" which has anything to do with embedding an external application into a Qt UI/widget, so i don't know what connection to your application is. Since it appears that you have its source code, why aren't you integrating it into your code (it says "Pure Qt4/Qt5 compatible code") rather than something about trying to run Firefox?
I would start out Googling for
qt embed external applicationto assess what might be possible.@JonB
I mean that library is compiled with mingw 32bit and used in my application. So I linked it.
It doesn't have any connection with embedding.
As a whole main purpose is to make application run browser without opening real browser window.Let's make QT free or It will go forever
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@JonB
I mean that library is compiled with mingw 32bit and used in my application. So I linked it.
It doesn't have any connection with embedding.
As a whole main purpose is to make application run browser without opening real browser window.@Thank-You said in Opening external application and embed it without opening application out of application:
It doesn't have any connection with embedding.
Then I don't know what relevance it has to your question.
As a whole main purpose is to make application run browser without opening real browser window.
I quoted a potential answer of "No, not for Firefox", but suggested what you should Google for to investigate embedding external applications into Qt. (There are further specific hits for
qt embed firefox.) Find one of those, see if it works, see if it can applied to your situation or not. -
@Thank-You said in Opening external application and embed it without opening application out of application:
It doesn't have any connection with embedding.
Then I don't know what relevance it has to your question.
As a whole main purpose is to make application run browser without opening real browser window.
I quoted a potential answer of "No, not for Firefox", but suggested what you should Google for to investigate embedding external applications into Qt. (There are further specific hits for
qt embed firefox.) Find one of those, see if it works, see if it can applied to your situation or not.@JonB
I have seen many of posts about this topic.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33699258/qt-5-5-embed-external-application-into-qwidget
All of these go out of my head. I haven't learned about these topic before.I will try installing msvc and will try to work with it.
HOPING for the bestLet's make QT free or It will go forever
TRUE AND FALSE <3
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@JonB
I have seen many of posts about this topic.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33699258/qt-5-5-embed-external-application-into-qwidget
All of these go out of my head. I haven't learned about these topic before.I will try installing msvc and will try to work with it.
HOPING for the best@Thank-You
You already havewindow = QWindow::fromWinId(hWnd); container = QWidget::createWindowContainer(window, ui->mdiArea);The solution at that stackoverflow link is merely to add
window->setFlags(window->flags() | Qt::FramelessWindowHint);I have no idea whether that is relevant to your situation, just saying that is all they are adding.
