QTWebEngineView doesn't load QRC html files (C++)

[peterkmoss]

Hi,

I'm working on a simple markdown viewer which uses the QtWebEngineView to render the HTML generated and it was working fine until recently, might be due to an update? (I'm currently compiling using 5.15.2)

I don't know the exact problem but it seems that when I try to tell the QWebEngineView to load or setUrl to a HTML file from my QRC it doesn't show anything - it's just a white screen.

If I try loading "https://google.com" everything loads correctly - and even other files from the QRC works (!?) I can load a .css file in from the QRC without issues and it will show the CSS in the window that I create, but not HTML.

Does anyone have any ideas? I've even tried with the most basic index.html file that I could think of...

This is my MainWindow constructor (at least the relevant parts):

MainWindow::MainWindow(QString *index_file, QString *file, QWidget *parent) : QMainWindow(parent), m_ui(new Ui::MainWindow) {
  m_ui->setupUi(this);

  ...

  m_file = new QFile(get_file(*file));

  m_channel = new QWebChannel(this);
  m_channel->registerObject(QStringLiteral("content"), &m_content);

  m_page = new WebPage(this);
  m_page->setWebChannel(m_channel);

  m_ui->WebView->setPage(m_page);
  ....

  QUrl file_url(*index_file);
  m_ui->WebView->setUrl(file_url);
  ....
}

The whole code is available here: GitHub, but I can post relevant parts if need be.

Thanks in advance!

[eyllanesc]

@peterkmoss You have to set the resource schema, in the case of qresource you have to use qrc:

"qrc:/index-light.html";
"qrc:/index-dark.html";

[peterkmoss]

I'm using a QUrl of "qrc:/index-light.html" and my QRC file looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE RCC><RCC version="1.0">
    <qresource prefix="/">
        <file>help.md</file>
        <file>index-dark.html</file>
        <file>index-light.html</file>
        <file>colors.css</file>
        <file>light.css</file>
        <file>dark.css</file>
        <file>markdown.css</file>
        <file>3rdparty/marked.js</file>
        <file>3rdparty/prism.js</file>
        <file>3rdparty/prism.css</file>
    </qresource>
</RCC>

It also doesn't say that it can't find the file - so it clearly knows that there is a html-file, it just doesn't show it?

[eyllanesc]

@peterkmoss According to your code no:

// https://github.com/Peterkmoss/qmarkdown/blob/fix-not-loading-index-file/src/main.cpp#L26
*index_file = ":/index-light.html";

// https://github.com/Peterkmoss/qmarkdown/blob/fix-not-loading-index-file/src/main.cpp#L30
*index_file = ":/index-dark.html";

I recommend using qDebug() to see what is failing, for example in your case: `

QUrl file_url(*index_file);
qDebug() << url;
m_ui->WebView->setUrl(file_url);

Have you tried changing to : *index_file = "qrc:/index-light.html"; and *index_file = "qrc:/index-dark.html"; in main.cpp?

[peterkmoss]

First off, thanks for your time.

I've tried that yeah - you can see that I've made the default index_file "qrc:/index-light.html" in the load_args function. It's here in the code.

When writing to qDebug() the string is correctly "qrc:/index-light.html", though nothing is shown in the webview... I've tried changing it to "qrc:/light.css" and then it correctly shows the css in the webview (the code in plaintext).