Hi Andy,
Out of curiosity, what new or boring technology are you migrating your
Qt3D to?
Cheers, Volker
Am 14.02.2025 um 16:00 schrieb Andy:
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.
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM Michael Jackson
<mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote:
@Andy <mailto: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.
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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!
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