简单浏览器 演示如何使用 Qt WebEngine C++ 类 to develop a small Web browser application that contains the following elements:
The web content can be opened in new tabs or separate windows. HTTP and proxy authentication can be used for accessing web pages.
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We start with sketching a diagram of the main classes that we are going to implement:
Browser
is a class managing the application windows.
BrowserWindow
是
QMainWindow
showing the menu, a navigation bar,
TabWidget
, and a status bar.
TabWidget
是
QTabWidget
and contains one or multiple browser tabs.
WebView
是
QWebEngineView
, provides a view for
WebPage
, and is added as a tab in
TabWidget
.
WebPage
是
QWebEnginePage
that represents website content.
Additionally, we will implement some auxiliary classes:
WebPopupWindow
是
QWidget
for showing popup windows.
DownloadManagerWidget
是
QWidget
implementing the downloads list.
This example supports multiple main windows that are owned by a
Browser
object. This class also owns the
DownloadManagerWidget
and could be used for further functionality, such as bookmarks and history managers.
在
main.cpp
, we create the first
BrowserWindow
instance and add it to the
Browser
object. If no arguments are passed on the command line, we open the
Qt Homepage
:
int main(int argc, char **argv) { QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling); QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps); QApplication app(argc, argv); app.setWindowIcon(QIcon(QStringLiteral(":AppLogoColor.png"))); QWebEngineSettings::defaultSettings()->setAttribute(QWebEngineSettings::PluginsEnabled, true); QUrl url = getCommandLineUrlArgument(); if (!url.isValid()) url = QStringLiteral("https://www.qt.io"); Browser browser; BrowserWindow *window = browser.createWindow(); window->currentTab()->setUrl(url); return app.exec(); }
The
BrowserWindow
constructor initializes all the necessary user interface related objects. The
centralWidget
of
BrowserWindow
contains an instance of
TabWidget
。
TabWidget
contains one or several
WebView
instances as tabs, and delegates it's signals and slots to the currently selected one:
class TabWidget : public QTabWidget { ... signals: // current tab/page signals void linkHovered(const QString &link); void loadProgress(int progress); void titleChanged(const QString &title); void urlChanged(const QUrl &url); void favIconChanged(const QIcon &icon); void webActionEnabledChanged(QWebEnginePage::WebAction action, bool enabled); public slots: // current tab/page slots void setUrl(const QUrl &url); void triggerWebPageAction(QWebEnginePage::WebAction action); ... };
Each tab contains an instance of
WebView
:
WebView *TabWidget::createTab() { WebView *webView = createBackgroundTab(); setCurrentWidget(webView); return webView; } WebView *TabWidget::createBackgroundTab() { WebView *webView = new WebView; WebPage *webPage = new WebPage(m_profile, webView); webView->setPage(webPage); setupView(webView); int index = addTab(webView, tr("(Untitled)")); setTabIcon(index, webView->favIcon()); return webView; }
在
TabWidget::setupView()
, we make sure that the
TabWidget
always forwards the signals of the currently selected
WebView
:
void TabWidget::setupView(WebView *webView) { QWebEnginePage *webPage = webView->page(); connect(webView, &QWebEngineView::titleChanged, [this, webView](const QString &title) { int index = indexOf(webView); if (index != -1) { setTabText(index, title); setTabToolTip(index, title); } if (currentIndex() == index) emit titleChanged(title); }); connect(webView, &QWebEngineView::urlChanged, [this, webView](const QUrl &url) { int index = indexOf(webView); if (index != -1) tabBar()->setTabData(index, url); if (currentIndex() == index) emit urlChanged(url); }); connect(webView, &QWebEngineView::loadProgress, [this, webView](int progress) { if (currentIndex() == indexOf(webView)) emit loadProgress(progress); }); ... }
The
WebView
is derived from
QWebEngineView
to support the following functionality:
renderProcess
dies
createWindow
requests
First, we create the WebView with the necessary methods and signals:
class WebView : public QWebEngineView { Q_OBJECT public: WebView(QWidget *parent = nullptr); ... protected: void contextMenuEvent(QContextMenuEvent *event) override; QWebEngineView *createWindow(QWebEnginePage::WebWindowType type) override; signals: void webActionEnabledChanged(QWebEnginePage::WebAction webAction, bool enabled); ... };
If the render process is terminated, we display a QMessageBox with an error code, and then we reload the page:
WebView::WebView(QWidget *parent) : QWebEngineView(parent) , m_loadProgress(100) { ... connect(this, &QWebEngineView::renderProcessTerminated, [this](QWebEnginePage::RenderProcessTerminationStatus termStatus, int statusCode) { QString status; switch (termStatus) { case QWebEnginePage::NormalTerminationStatus: status = tr("Render process normal exit"); break; case QWebEnginePage::AbnormalTerminationStatus: status = tr("Render process abnormal exit"); break; case QWebEnginePage::CrashedTerminationStatus: status = tr("Render process crashed"); break; case QWebEnginePage::KilledTerminationStatus: status = tr("Render process killed"); break; } QMessageBox::StandardButton btn = QMessageBox::question(window(), status, tr("Render process exited with code: %1\n" "Do you want to reload the page ?").arg(statusCode)); if (btn == QMessageBox::Yes) QTimer::singleShot(0, [this] { reload(); }); }); }
The loaded page might want to create windows of the type
QWebEnginePage::WebWindowType
, for example, when a JavaScript program requests to open a document in a new window or dialog. This is handled by overriding
QWebView::createWindow()
:
QWebEngineView *WebView::createWindow(QWebEnginePage::WebWindowType type) { BrowserWindow *mainWindow = qobject_cast<BrowserWindow*>(window()); if (!mainWindow) return nullptr; switch (type) { case QWebEnginePage::WebBrowserTab: { return mainWindow->tabWidget()->createTab(); }
In case of
QWebEnginePage::WebDialog
, we create an instance of a custom
WebPopupWindow
类:
class WebPopupWindow : public QWidget { Q_OBJECT public: WebPopupWindow(QWebEngineProfile *profile); WebView *view() const; private slots: void handleGeometryChangeRequested(const QRect &newGeometry); private: QLineEdit *m_urlLineEdit; QAction *m_favAction; WebView *m_view; };
We add menu items to the context menu, so that users can right-click a link to have it opened in the same tab, a new window, or a new tab. We override QWebEngineView::contextMenuEvent and use QWebEnginePage::createStandardContextMenu to create a default QMenu with a default list of QWebEnginePage::WebAction actions.
The default name for QWebEnginePage::OpenLinkInThisWindow action is Follow . For clarity, we rename it Open Link in This Tab . Also, we add the actions for opening links in a separate window or in a new tab:
void WebView::contextMenuEvent(QContextMenuEvent *event) { QMenu *menu = page()->createStandardContextMenu(); const QList<QAction*> actions = menu->actions(); auto it = std::find(actions.cbegin(), actions.cend(), page()->action(QWebEnginePage::OpenLinkInThisWindow)); if (it != actions.cend()) { (*it)->setText(tr("Open Link in This Tab")); ++it; QAction *before(it == actions.cend() ? nullptr : *it); menu->insertAction(before, page()->action(QWebEnginePage::OpenLinkInNewWindow)); menu->insertAction(before, page()->action(QWebEnginePage::OpenLinkInNewTab)); } menu->popup(event->globalPos()); }
We implement
WebPage
as a subclass of
QWebEnginePage
to enable HTTP, proxy authentication, and ignoring SSL certificate errors when accessing web pages:
class WebPage : public QWebEnginePage { Q_OBJECT public: WebPage(QWebEngineProfile *profile, QObject *parent = nullptr); protected: bool certificateError(const QWebEngineCertificateError &error) override; private slots: void handleAuthenticationRequired(const QUrl &requestUrl, QAuthenticator *auth); void handleProxyAuthenticationRequired(const QUrl &requestUrl, QAuthenticator *auth, const QString &proxyHost); };
In all the cases above, we display the appropriate dialog to the user. In case of authentication, we need to set the correct credential values on the QAuthenticator 对象:
void WebPage::handleAuthenticationRequired(const QUrl &requestUrl, QAuthenticator *auth) { QWidget *mainWindow = view()->window(); QDialog dialog(mainWindow); dialog.setModal(true); dialog.setWindowFlags(dialog.windowFlags() & ~Qt::WindowContextHelpButtonHint); Ui::PasswordDialog passwordDialog; passwordDialog.setupUi(&dialog); passwordDialog.m_iconLabel->setText(QString()); QIcon icon(mainWindow->style()->standardIcon(QStyle::SP_MessageBoxQuestion, 0, mainWindow)); passwordDialog.m_iconLabel->setPixmap(icon.pixmap(32, 32)); QString introMessage(tr("Enter username and password for \"%1\" at %2") .arg(auth->realm()).arg(requestUrl.toString().toHtmlEscaped())); passwordDialog.m_infoLabel->setText(introMessage); passwordDialog.m_infoLabel->setWordWrap(true); if (dialog.exec() == QDialog::Accepted) { auth->setUser(passwordDialog.m_userNameLineEdit->text()); auth->setPassword(passwordDialog.m_passwordLineEdit->text()); } else { // Set authenticator null if dialog is cancelled *auth = QAuthenticator(); } }
The
handleProxyAuthenticationRequired
signal handler implements the very same steps for the authentication of HTTP proxies.
In case of SSL errors, we just need to return a boolean value indicating whether the certificate should be ignored.
bool WebPage::certificateError(const QWebEngineCertificateError &error) { QWidget *mainWindow = view()->window(); if (error.isOverridable()) { QDialog dialog(mainWindow); dialog.setModal(true); dialog.setWindowFlags(dialog.windowFlags() & ~Qt::WindowContextHelpButtonHint); Ui::CertificateErrorDialog certificateDialog; certificateDialog.setupUi(&dialog); certificateDialog.m_iconLabel->setText(QString()); QIcon icon(mainWindow->style()->standardIcon(QStyle::SP_MessageBoxWarning, 0, mainWindow)); certificateDialog.m_iconLabel->setPixmap(icon.pixmap(32, 32)); certificateDialog.m_errorLabel->setText(error.errorDescription()); dialog.setWindowTitle(tr("Certificate Error")); return dialog.exec() == QDialog::Accepted; } QMessageBox::critical(mainWindow, tr("Certificate Error"), error.errorDescription()); return false; }
This section describes the workflow for opening a new page. When the user enters a URL in the navigation bar and presses
Enter
,
QLineEdit::returnPressed
signal is emitted and the new URL is then handed over to
TabWidget::setUrl
:
BrowserWindow::BrowserWindow(Browser *browser, QWebEngineProfile *profile) { ... connect(m_urlLineEdit, &QLineEdit::returnPressed, [this]() { m_tabWidget->setUrl(QUrl::fromUserInput(m_urlLineEdit->text())); }); ... }
The call is forwarded to the currently selected tab:
void TabWidget::setUrl(const QUrl &url) { if (WebView *view = currentWebView()) { view->setUrl(url); view->setFocus(); } }
The
setUrl()
方法为
WebView
just forwards the
url
to the associated
WebPage
, which in turn starts the downloading of the page's content in the background.
Private browsing , incognito mode ,或 off-the-record mode is a feature of many browsers where normally persistent data, such as cookies, the HTTP cache, or browsing history, is kept only in memory, leaving no trace on disk. In this example we will implement private browsing on the window level with tabs in one window all in either normal or private mode. Alternatively we could implement private browsing on the tab-level, with some tabs in a window in normal mode, others in private mode.
Implementing private browsing is quite easy using Qt WebEngine. All one has to do is to create a new
QWebEngineProfile
and use it in the
QWebEnginePage
instead of the default profile. In the example this new profile is created and owned by the
Browser
对象:
class Browser { public: ... BrowserWindow *createWindow(bool offTheRecord = false); private: ... QWebEngineProfile m_otrProfile; };
The default constructor for
QWebEngineProfile
already puts it in
off-the-record
mode. All that is left to do is to pass the appropriate profile down to the appropriate
QWebEnginePage
objects. The
Browser
object will hand to each new
BrowserWindow
either the global default profile (see
QWebEngineProfile::defaultProfile
) or its own off-the-record profile:
BrowserWindow *Browser::createWindow(bool offTheRecord) { auto profile = offTheRecord ? &m_otrProfile : QWebEngineProfile::defaultProfile(); auto mainWindow = new BrowserWindow(this, profile); return mainWindow; }
The
BrowserWindow
and
TabWidget
objects will then ensure that all
QWebEnginePage
objects contained in a window will use this profile.
Downloads are associated with a
QWebEngineProfile
. Whenever a download is triggered on a web page the
QWebEngineProfile::downloadRequested
signal is emitted with a
QWebEngineDownloadItem
, which in this example is forwarded to
DownloadManagerWidget::downloadRequested
:
Browser::Browser() { // Quit application if the download manager window is the only remaining window m_downloadManagerWidget.setAttribute(Qt::WA_QuitOnClose, false); QObject::connect( QWebEngineProfile::defaultProfile(), &QWebEngineProfile::downloadRequested, &m_downloadManagerWidget, &DownloadManagerWidget::downloadRequested); QObject::connect( &m_otrProfile, &QWebEngineProfile::downloadRequested, &m_downloadManagerWidget, &DownloadManagerWidget::downloadRequested); }
This method prompts the user for a file name (with a pre-filled suggestion) and starts the download (unless the user cancels the 另存为 dialog):
void DownloadManagerWidget::downloadRequested(QWebEngineDownloadItem *download) { Q_ASSERT(download && download->state() == QWebEngineDownloadItem::DownloadRequested); QString path = QFileDialog::getSaveFileName(this, tr("Save as"), download->path()); if (path.isEmpty()) return; download->setPath(path); download->accept(); add(new DownloadWidget(download)); show(); }
The
QWebEngineDownloadItem
object will periodically emit the
downloadProgress
signal to notify potential observers of the download progress and the
stateChanged
signal when the download is finished or when an error occurs. See
downloadmanagerwidget.cpp
for an example of how these signals can be handled.
All icons used in the example, with the exception of
AppLogoColor.png
, originate from the public domain
Tango 图标库
.
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