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    Question Is there a widget for display HTML files?

    Is there a Qt widget that will allow me to populate it with HTML markup (including <img src="\dir\graphic.jpg">) for display to the user? It will need to be able to retrieve local images and provide hyperlinks. Is this possible?

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    Default Re: Is there a widget for display HTML files?

    Just found the QTextBrowser widget. This seems to display HTML and images. Although I can't seem to get the path correct for displaying an image currently. But I am sure I will figure it out.

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    Default Re: Is there a widget for display HTML files?

    Ok - how do I get a QTextBrowser to load and display a local HTML file? I seem to be having trouble understanding the C++ code required to do that. Assume the HTML file is in the program directory.

    Any quick help with the C++ code required to do this would be very helpful.

    Thanks,
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    Cool Re: Is there a widget for display HTML files?

    Sorry to be wasting bandwidth here. I uncovered the answer via some extended searching in these forums.

    Qt Code:
    1. ui.textBrowser->setSource(QUrl("sample.htm"));
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    One problem however, I have a graphic file in the same directory as "sample.htm" - "icon5.gif". [WindowsXP, Visual Studio 2005]
    The setSrouce() call finds sample.htm, however, the textBrowser loads a "missing" graphic instead of the GIF file I referenced.

    Qt Code:
    1. <HTML>
    2. <HEAD>
    3. <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 8.0">
    4. <TITLE></TITLE>
    5. </HEAD>
    6. <BODY>
    7. <h1>Introduction</h1>
    8. <p>This is the first paragraph</p>
    9. <ul>
    10. <li>Item 1</li>
    11. <li>Item 2</li>
    12. <li>Item 3</li>
    13. </ul>
    14. <p>
    15. <img src="icon5.gif" />
    16. </p>
    17. </BODY>
    18. </HTML>
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    Why can't the textBrowser find and display the graphic?

    Thanks,
    Jeff

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    Default Re: Is there a widget for display HTML files?

    Maybe your Qt installation doesn't support gif images. Did you turn on GIF support for Qt? If not, then you've got your reason

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    Question Re: Is there a widget for display HTML files?

    It was a GIF issue. When I replaced the reference with a JPG file, it was displayed correctly.

    Now, the question begs - how does one turn on GIF support?

    And, if I may go ahead and piggy-back this thread with a further HTML-related question:

    Can the QtextBrowser display buttons and text fields and checkboxes?

    And, hoping that the answer is yes, can my code retrieve notification of button clicks; text from text fields and the status of said checkboxes?

    Thanks very much for your expertise!
    Jeff

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    Default Re: Is there a widget for display HTML files?

    Quote Originally Posted by JeffJones View Post
    Now, the question begs - how does one turn on GIF support?
    You need to rebuild Qt with an option to configure to compile in GIF support: -qt-gif.

    Quote Originally Posted by JeffJones View Post
    Can the QtextBrowser display buttons and text fields and checkboxes?
    No it can't. It's not meant to be a full HTML browser engine, just a rich text display using as subset of HTML/CSS as the markup. However, in the future we will have a pure Qt WebKit, which will be a real HTML engine. It will be several months at least though.

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