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