Thanks Mike. I was actually doing something similar and moved away from it in favour of (more) self-containment! :-)
I did have some success at making a "litehtml widget" and could probably replace my docs using it, but I couldn't get the creation of PDFs working with it properly. I'm sure it could be done, but I have too many other things to do (e.g. migrating away from Qt3D), so for now I live with the Chromium beast... It would be great to have a non-JavaScript HTML/CSS layout capability - maybe beef up Qt::TextFormat to add Qt::HTMLCSSText using litehtml or something like that. Then it would be dead-simple to drop in a QLabel with some properly laid-out HTML/CSS anywhere you want. --- Andy Maloney // https://asmaloney.com mastodon ~ @asmalo...@fosstodon.org <https://fosstodon.org/@asmaloney> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM Michael Jackson <mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote: > @Andy <asmalo...@gmail.com> > We went down this road years ago with the same issues as you with > respect to running in a sensitive environment and having the extra process > running. We eventually switched to using sphinx to generate our > documentation, ship it as a non-compressed folder that has the HTML web > site. We then added code to just use QDesktopProcess(?) or something like > that to just launch the needed html doc in the user’s web browser of > choice. Not saying this would work for your situation but just another data > point to consider. > > -- > Mike Jackson mike.jack...@bluequartz.net > BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net > President/Owner Dayton, Ohio > Principal DREAM.3D Developer > > > On Feb 13, 2025 at 10:53:05, Andy <asmalo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Vladimir: >> >> Thanks for the survey. There wasn't a free-form comment section at the >> end of the survey, but I had a couple of notes... >> >> I use QWebEngine for three things for my desktop application: (1) >> displaying my manual (built using the Qt help system), (2) displaying HTML >> reports I generate on the fly using a template system (KTextTemplate), and >> (3) saving those reports as PDFs. >> >> Using QWebEngine had several consequences: >> >> 1) On Windows only MSVC is supported, so it changed my development >> tooling. MSVC is a pain to use since there are so many little things that >> are different/unsupported (w.r.t. clang or gcc). It would save me a lot of >> time not to have to worry about those differences. >> 2) Now I have to pull in & ship libs (WebChannel, Positioning, Quick? QML >> stuff?) that I don't use directly >> 3) Now I have to deal with questions from my customers about >> QWebEngineProcess (I deal in a moderately sensitive area where they take >> security a bit more seriously) >> 4) The size of my shipping applications went from 60 MB to 136 MB >> (Windows) and 38 MB to 250 MB (not directly comparable since I also >> switched to universal builds, so probably ~125 MB) >> 5) The drastic increase in size not only impacts user downloads, but it >> also means the signing & notarizing stuff is much slower for me >> >> None of my HTML/docs/reports use JavaScript, so ideally, for my use >> cases, Qt would offer a lighter HTML/CSS layout widget (maybe using >> something like litehtml (https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml), but more >> complete/robust) that would allow display/interaction with non-JavaScript >> pages, and allow saving them to PDF. If I'm not mistaken, Qt Creator uses >> litehtml for its docs? >> >> Summary: I'd love to get rid of this Chromium behemoth and replace it >> with something more reasonable for my use-cases. >> >> Thanks! >> >> --- >> Andy Maloney // https://asmaloney.com >> mastodon ~ @asmalo...@fosstodon.org <https://fosstodon.org/@asmaloney> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM Vladimir Minenko via Interest < >> interest@qt-project.org> wrote: >> >>> Good morning all interested in Qt! >>> >>> Qt is conducting a user survey about Qt WebEngine and Qt WebView. We >>> want to hear users' feedback to properly align the priorities for the >>> development of these components. We would appreciate your input. >>> >>> If you use Qt WebEngine or Qt WebView, please take 15–20 minutes to >>> complete the survey. >>> >>> Some of you might have received a personalized email with an invitation >>> to this survey. 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