Qt Creator 4.11 comes with an optional [[https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml][litehtml]] based help rendering backend. To change the used backend, go to Options > Help > General, and choose "litehtml" as the "Viewer backend". All new help viewers will use the changed backend, so e.g. after Qt Creator restart, after "Open Link as New Page", or after choosing "Reload" from the "split+" tool button menu on the right in the tool bar above the viewer.
In our binary packages the available backends are "QTextBrowser" and "litehtml", and on macOS additionally "WebKit", which uses the native WebView component. The code for the litehtml backend is currently part of the Qt Creator repository. https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/src/plugins/help/qlitehtml This adds a QPainter based backend for litehtml (not quite complete, but implementing the most important things that are also used in Qt documentation), and a simple QWidget that integrates that, with a simple API for setting the URL (as a base for links), the HTML content, zoom factor, default font, getting the HTML title, finding text and getting the selected content, and callbacks/signals for loading resources and reacting to clicks. This part is completely independent from Qt Creator and could be used elsewhere. Additionally there is a viewer backend implementation for Qt Creator that uses this widget. Br, Eike -- Eike Ziller Principal Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Erich-Thilo-Straße 10 D-12489 Berlin eike.zil...@qt.io http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
