Problems with Qt Webkit and Mac App Store

Sheenmue

I have developed an app that uses a web view and I'm having problems to publish it in the Mac App Store as more people has reported in the past.

There's an easy solution, using an OS X native web view (I'll explain now how to do it), but that doesn't work for me because I have developed the UI with OpenGL and when I use an NS-control (not only a web view, a button, search field...) it doesn't appear. Is there a way to make it work over an OpenGL surface?

Also, I think I read in the past it's possible to compile qtwebkit without HTML5 video support (that seems to be the problem with Apple rules because it uses a private API) but now I cannot find where I read it and I'm not sure if that would work. If somebody has tried it and could explain me how to do it I would appreciate it, because I have never compiled Qt or QtWebkit.

Now, for the people that want to use a native webview in OS X this is a how to:

Add this line in the .pro file to use Cocoa and Webkit:
@LIBS += -framework Cocoa -framework WebKit@
As we are going to use Objective-C it's important that the classes that use Objective-C are in a .mm file instead of .cpp . The .pro file should look like this:
@SOURCES += main.cpp

OBJECTIVE_SOURCES += cocoaclass.mm

HEADERS += cocoaclass.h@

Our NS view will be wrapped in a QMacCocoaViewContainer derived class. We will use that class in the rest of our Qt code like if it was a QWidget. This is a sample class with a webview that opens Google when it's created.

cocoawebview.h
@#ifndef COCOAWEBVIEW_H
#define COCOAWEBVIEW_H

#include <QMacCocoaViewContainer>

class CocoaWebView : public QMacCocoaViewContainer
{
public:
CocoaWebView(QWidget *parent);
};

#endif // COCOAWEBVIEW_H@

cocoawebview.mm
@#include "cocoawebview.h"
#include <WebKit/WebKit.h>
#include <Webkit/WebView.h>

CocoaWebView::CocoaWebView(QWidget *parent) : QMacCocoaViewContainer(0,parent)
{
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

NSRect rect = {{0, 0},{parent->width(), parent->height()}};

WebView *webView = [[WebView alloc] initWithFrame:rect frameName:nil groupName:nil];

setCocoaView(webView);

[[static_cast<WebView *> (this->cocoaView()) mainFrame] loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithString:@"http://www.google.com"]]]];

[webView release];

[pool release];
}@

PS: I'm using Qt 4.8.3

gaojinhsu

Good enough to solve it temporarily. I have succeed to pass the review of the MAS.

rushmore

How do you detect url redirecting with this method? Thanks.

gaojinhsu

What's your email? I could give you my sample code.

rushmore

Can you click on my profile and send email from there? Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

rushmore

I just sent you my email address via forum message. Thank you!

gaojinhsu

You are welcome, I've rebuilt a demo and uploaded it here,I hope it could help you. https://github.com/gaojinhsu/qt-cocoa-webview

rushmore

This is a life saver... Thank you so much!