fancybrowser.qdoc 5.93 KB
Newer Older
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed
/****************************************************************************
**
** Copyright (C) 2014 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed
** Contact: http://www.qt-project.org/legal
**
** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
**
** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:FDL$
** Commercial License Usage
** Licensees holding valid commercial Qt licenses may use this file in
** accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the
** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in
** a written agreement between you and Digia.  For licensing terms and
** conditions see http://qt.digia.com/licensing.  For further information
** use the contact form at http://qt.digia.com/contact-us.
**
** GNU Free Documentation License Usage
** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Free
** Documentation License version 1.3 as published by the Free Software
** Foundation and appearing in the file included in the packaging of
** this file.  Please review the following information to ensure
** the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 requirements
** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.
** $QT_END_LICENSE$
**
****************************************************************************/

/*!
    \example fancybrowser
    \title WebEngine Fancy Browser Example
    \ingroup webengine-widgetexamples
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed
    \brief Demonstrates how to use browse web and manipulate content

    \brief The Fancy Browser example shows how to use JQuery with QtWebEngine to
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed
    create a web browser with special effects and content
    manipulation.

    \image fancybrowser-example.png

    The application makes use of QWebEnginePage::evaluateJavaScript to
    evaluate the jQuery JavaScript code. A QMainWindow with a QWebEngineView
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed
    as central widget builds up the browser itself.

    \include examples-run.qdocinc

Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed
    \section1 MainWindow Class Definition

    The \c MainWindow class inherits QMainWindow. It implements a number of
    slots to perform actions on both the application and on the web content.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.h 1
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    We also declare a QString that contains the jQuery, a QWebView
    that displays the web content, and a QLineEdit that acts as the
    address bar.

    \section1 MainWindow Class Implementation

    We start by implementing the constructor.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 1
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    The first part of the constructor sets the value of \c progress to
    0. This value will be used later in the code to visualize the
    loading of a webpage.

    Next, the jQuery library is loaded using a QFile and reading the file
    content. The jQuery library is a JavaScript library that provides different
    functions for manipulating HTML.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 2
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    The second part of the constructor creates a QWebView and connects
    slots to the views signals. Furthermore, we create a QLineEdit as
    the browsers address bar. We then set the horizontal QSizePolicy
    to fill the available area in the browser at all times. We add the
    QLineEdit to a QToolbar together with a set of navigation actions
    from QWebView::pageAction.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 3
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    The third and last part of the constructor implements two QMenus and assigns
    a set of actions to them. The last line sets the QWebView as the central
    widget in the QMainWindow.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 4
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    When the page is loaded, \c adjustLocation() updates the address
    bar; \c adjustLocation() is triggered by the \c loadFinished()
    signal in QWebView. In \c changeLocation() we create a QUrl
    object, and then use it to load the page into the QWebView. When
    the new web page has finished loading, \c adjustLocation() will be
    run once more to update the address bar.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 5
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    \c adjustTitle() sets the window title and displays the loading
    progress. This slot is triggered by the \c titleChanged() signal
    in QWebView.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 6
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    When a web page has loaded, \c finishLoading() is triggered by the
    \c loadFinished() signal in QWebView. \c finishLoading() then updates the
    progress in the title bar and calls \c evaluateJavaScript()
    to evaluate the jQuery library. This evaluates the JavaScript against the
    current web page. What that means is that the JavaScript can be viewed as
    part of the content loaded into the QWebView, and therefore needs to be
    loaded every time a new page is loaded. Once the jQuery library is loaded,
    we can start executing the different jQuery functions in the browser.
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    The rotateImages() function is then called explicitely to make sure
    that the images of the newly loaded page respect the state of the toggle
    action.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 7
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    The first jQuery-based function, \c highlightAllLinks(), is designed to
    highlight all links in the current webpage. The JavaScript code looks
    for web elements named \e {a}, which is the tag for a hyperlink.
    For each such element, the background color is set to be yellow by
    using CSS.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 8
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    The \c rotateImages() function rotates the images on the current
    web page. This JavaScript code relies on CSS transforms and
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed
    looks up all \e {img} elements and rotates the images 180 degrees
    and then back again.

    \snippet fancybrowser/mainwindow.cpp 9
Pierre Rossi's avatar
Pierre Rossi committed

    The remaining four methods remove different elements from the current web
    page. \c removeGifImages() removes all GIF images on the page by looking up
    the \e {src} attribute of all the elements on the web page. Any element with
    a \e {gif} file as its source is removed. \c removeInlineFrames() removes all
    \e {iframe} or inline elements. \c removeObjectElements() removes all
    \e {object} elements, and \c removeEmbeddedElements() removes any elements
    such as plugins embedded on the page using the \e {embed} tag.

*/