link from QTextBrowser to QWebView

[lamera]

hi!

I've got an application which shows a list of links in QTextBrowser, but if the user clicks one of them I want them to appear in a different - QWebView, not in QTextBrowser, I want the QTextBrowser to remain the same.

so I've done:

QWebView *webview;
QTextBrowser *browser;

QWebView *webview;
QTextBrowser *browser;

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connect(browser, SIGNAL(sourceChanged(QUrl &)), this, SLOT(showLink(QUrl &)));

connect(browser, SIGNAL(sourceChanged(QUrl &)), this, SLOT(showLink(QUrl &)));

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and then:

showLink(const QUrl &link)
{
	webview->load(QUrl(link));
	webview->show();
}

showLink(const QUrl &link)
{
	webview->load(QUrl(link));
	webview->show();
}

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anyway it doesn't work.

So I subclassed QTextBrowser and modified setSource() to do nothing. Still doesn't work...

thanks for any help.

[JimDaniel]

Just off the top of my head, maybe try putting "const" in the signal/slot connection parameters?

[lamera]

hi!
tried that too, but it doesn't help, anyway thanks for the reply

[jpn]

I've got an application which shows a list of links in QTextBrowser, but if the user clicks one of them I want...

In that case QTextBrowser::sourceChanged() is a wrong signal. You're interested in QTextBrowser::anchorClicked().

[lamera]

it actually doesn't need a signal, I just put the

webview->load(url);

webview->load(url);

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command into the QTextBrowser::setSource(QUrl & url) function and it works!

what I'm trying to figure out now is how to handle it if the link is a PDF...
I've seen a few threads on other forums, but still the solutions don't seem to work.

If the link is to a pdf I would like the program to open a windows-like window saying
Opening name.PDF and then he chooses the default program (e.g.Adobe Reader) or gives the ability to choose sth else.

So I've tries sth like:

virtual void setSource(const QUrl &link) {
        if ((link.toString()).endsWith(".pdf")){
        	qDebug() << "Loading PDF viewer on " << link.toString();
        }
        else {
        	webview->load(link);
        	webview->show();
        }
}

virtual void setSource(const QUrl &link) {
        if ((link.toString()).endsWith(".pdf")){
        	qDebug() << "Loading PDF viewer on " << link.toString();
        }
        else {
        	webview->load(link);
        	webview->show();
        }
}

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should I make use of the QProcess class?