How to capture mouse events in webengineview

ejos

I tried to implement mouseMoveEvent in WebEngineView class.

But after reading from the internet (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-43602) got to know that QWebEngineView doesn't capture mouseEvents and it's a limitation.

Also suggestion was given as to monitor QObject::childEvent of the QWebEngineView and install an event filter when a new child QWidget appear during page loads

how do I do this?

cm0x4d

Had the same issue. Even the topic is quite old I publish here my solution for anyone that might have this issue now.

Note that I need to track the mouse, so I call setMouseTracking(true); in the constructor.

class CustomWebEngineView: public QWebEngineView {
public:
    explicit CustomWebEngineView(QWidget *parent = nullptr): QWebEngineView(parent) {
        QApplication::instance()->installEventFilter(this);
        setMouseTracking(true);
    }

protected:
    bool eventFilter(QObject *object, QEvent *event) {
        if (object->parent() == this && event->type() == QEvent::MouseMove) {
            mouseMoveEvent(static_cast<QMouseEvent *>(event));
        }

        return false;
    }
};