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Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook

By : Lee Zhi Eng
Book Image

Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook

By: Lee Zhi Eng

Overview of this book

With the advancement of computer technology, the software market is exploding with tons of software choices for the user, making their expectations higher in terms of functionality and the look and feel of the application. Therefore, improving the visual quality of your application is vital in order to overcome the market competition and stand out from the crowd. This book will teach you how to develop functional and appealing software using Qt5 through multiple projects that are interesting and fun. This book covers a variety of topics such as look-and-feel customization, GUI animation, graphics rendering, implementing Google Maps, and more. You will learn tons of useful information, and enjoy the process of working on the creative projects provided in this book
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

WebView and web settings


In this section, we will dive deeper into the features available in Qt's WebEngine and explore the settings that we can use to customize our WebView. We will use the source files from the previous example and add more code to it.

How to do it…

Let's explore some of the basic features of the Qt WebEngine:

  1. First of all, open up mainwindow.ui and add a vertical layout under the progress bar. Then, add a Plain Text Edit widget (under the input widget category) and a Push button to the vertical layout. Change the display of the Push button to Load HTML and set the plaintext property of the plain text edit widget to the following:

    <Img src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png"></img>
    <h1>Hello World!</h1>
    <h3>This is our custom HTML page.</h3>
    
    <script>alert("Hello!");</script>
  2. Next, go to File | New File or Project. A window will then pop up and ask you to choose a file template...