Using of WebView module with Qt 5.6

FOXLISIN

Hi to everyone! I need to show html content in my application. I want to use WebView control for that.
But i don't know how to connect it with my project. Is it WebView module available only on iOS and Andoid? Coz i'm writing a desktop application (mingw).

in my .pro file:

QT += qml quick webview

in .qml file:

import QtWebView 1.1

error is: Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: webview
( this module is downloaded through MaintenanceTool )

Leonardo

Depending on your needs, maybe you could use a Text element. It has some basic support for HTML.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-text.html#textFormat-prop

FOXLISIN

@Leonardo yes, maybe I can. But this is important problem.

PS. With msvc compiler all is good (i look through into Qt folder and I can't find webview library in mingw catalog)

Leonardo

Well, I think it's not available for Windows. I just tried compiling it with MSVC and got this:

Project ERROR: No WebView backend found!

Checking its source tree, we only see the following platform specific files:

qwebview_android.cpp
qwebview_ios.mm
qwebview_osx.mm

In addition to that, documentation is a bit vague:

WebView is a component for displaying web content which is implemented using native APIs on the platforms where this is available, thus it does not necessarily require including a full web browser stack as part of the application.

Maybe that's it.

Alex M

For desktop platforms you can use qtwebengine
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-platform-notes.html

FOXLISIN

@Leonardo But with msvc compiler on Windows all builds good. This is problem of mingw and a don't understand why (Qt's forgot to put the libraries into the folder? :) )

@Alex-M the same problem with mingw compiler :(

Shiva.M

Use import QtWebKit 3.0 for mingw and import QtWebView 1.0 for android

vladstelmahovsky

for some unknown reason, QWebEngine no available for MinGW
Since WevView on desktop its just wrap up over QWebEngine, it does not available as well