signal/slot for a Qebview urlChanged event

[budda]

this is a silly question, that most likely has an easy answer... but if I have a Qwebview called ui->webView... how do I connect the webview event as a signal and slot for a urlChanged()?

[Zlatomir]

You start by reading the signals and slots documentation.

And then you will write something like:

connect(ui->webView, SIGNAL(urlChanged (QUrl) ), OBJECT_TO_CONNECT, SLOT(SLOT_TO_EXECUTE(QUrl)) );

connect(ui->webView, SIGNAL(urlChanged (QUrl) ), OBJECT_TO_CONNECT, SLOT(SLOT_TO_EXECUTE(QUrl)) );

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//i don't know for sure if the correct parameter is QURL, check here

[budda]

shouldn't this work if I have the checkForXLS(); as a PRIVATE SLOT: in the header file and a method for it as well?

connect(ui->webView, SIGNAL(urlChanged(QUrl url&)), this, SLOT(checkForXLS()));

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Added after 6 minutes:

ui->setupUi(this);
ui->webView->load(QUrl("http://site.com/index.php"));
ui->webView->show();
 
//now put connection for checking class method if a changed url is actually a file with .xls extension
connect(ui->webView, SIGNAL(urlChanged(QUrl url&)), this, SLOT(checkForXLS()));

ui->setupUi(this);
ui->webView->load(QUrl("http://site.com/index.php"));
ui->webView->show();

//now put connection for checking class method if a changed url is actually a file with .xls extension
connect(ui->webView, SIGNAL(urlChanged(QUrl url&)), this, SLOT(checkForXLS()));

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Added after 7 minutes:

Trying to download a file through the course of going through some webpages, I don't want to have a seperate QButton to download the file when it finally is sent to the QWebView, but a connection signal/slot to realize that it is a file with extension of .xls (already created) just need to trigger a method to start the QFileDialog::getSaveFileName() function... can this be a connection through the QWebView?

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Added after 10 minutes:

I have used connection signals & slots before, but always with a ui->pushButton, a ui->action, or a ui->actionToolBar.... I guess my question is how to do this with a webView event?

[budda]

looks like I have to set up QNetworkAccessManager connection classes.....