How to display a html map in a Qt widget?

**TheIndependentAquarius** · 5th July 2012, 06:14

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#include <QtCore>
#include <QtGui>
#include <QtWebKit>
 
int main (int argc, char * argv[])
{
    QApplication app (argc, argv);
 
    QUrl baseUrl = QUrl::fromLocalFile (QDir::current().absoluteFilePath ("file:///home/anisha/Desktop/ogmap.html"));
 
    QString msg ("<html><body><img src='logo.png' /></body></html>");
 
    QWebView *webView = new QWebView;
    webView->setHtml(msg, baseUrl);
 
    webView->show();
    return app.exec();
}

#include <QtCore>
#include <QtGui>
#include <QtWebKit>

int main (int argc, char * argv[])
{
    QApplication app (argc, argv);

    QUrl baseUrl = QUrl::fromLocalFile (QDir::current().absoluteFilePath ("file:///home/anisha/Desktop/ogmap.html"));

    QString msg ("<html><body><img src='logo.png' /></body></html>");

    QWebView *webView = new QWebView;
    webView->setHtml(msg, baseUrl);

    webView->show();
    return app.exec();
}

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This displays a small logo in the widget, nothing else. I am not interested in any logo.
When I open that html file through Konqueror/Firefox, map gets displayed.
What wrong am I doing here? I want the map to be displayed in that widget.

**ChrisW67** · 5th July 2012, 07:11

You see a logo because that's the HTML you gave the QWebView to display. The HTML does not come from the base URL; that's where relative references in the HTML are resolved relative to.

If you wanted the QWebview to show the ogmap.html file then you should give QWebView::setUrl() the URL to that file. At line 9 you take a roundabout path to try to create the file:// URL you started with

Just:

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QUrl url("file:///home/anisha/Desktop/ogmap.html");  
// OR QUrl url = QUrl::fromLocalFile("/home/anisha/Desktop/ogmap.html");
QWebView view;
view.setUrl(url);
view.show();

QUrl url("file:///home/anisha/Desktop/ogmap.html");  
// OR QUrl url = QUrl::fromLocalFile("/home/anisha/Desktop/ogmap.html");
QWebView view;
view.setUrl(url);
view.show();

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should do it.

**TheIndependentAquarius** · 5th July 2012, 07:15

Very thankful to you for that.
So, I was using the wrong function: `setHtml`

Your method worked flawlessly. :hattip:

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