Backspace with a virtual keyboard in combination with WebView

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Hi,

I have written a virtyual keyboard to edit/enter text. This was not specific for WebView only but it only fails to work with WebView. It does work for instance for TextEdit.

What already works with a WebView

• I'm able to show and hide the virtual keyboard
• I'm able to add (append) text.

What doesn't work

• removing text with the backspace button on my virtual keyboard. This does work on TextEdit {...} but not for WebView

When I click a button the qml calls some C++ code - a qml plugin - that sends an event to the focused object.

Code:

@ void VirtualkeyboardKeys::keyPressed(QString character) {

QObject* focusObject = QGuiApplication::focusObject();
QInputMethodEvent ev;

if (character == QString("backspace")) {
   ev.setCommitString("",-1,1);
   QCoreApplication::sendEvent(focusObject,&ev);
} else {
      ev.setCommitString(character);
      QCoreApplication::sendEvent(focusObject,&ev);
}

}
@

I'm using Qt 5.2.1

Any ideas? Thanks for the help