There is almost always room for a browser in a desktop application. You might need to show some help pages, documents, formated source code, xml or what not. And then you need a browser.

Up to now these browsers have often been limited to show some simple html. But with Qt 4.4 and Qt Jambi 4.4 we will have a proper WebKit integration and voila.. you have a full fledged web browser at your fingertips.

Let’s have a quick look at what it can do!

Oi, that looks promising.. Let’s have a look at the source code to this example that has been written using Qt Jambi.

import com.trolltech.qt.core.*;
import com.trolltech.qt.gui.*;
import com.trolltech.qt.webkit.*;       

class HelloWebKit extends QWidget {       

    private QWebView browser;
    private QLineEdit field;       

    public HelloWebKit() {
        field = new QLineEdit();
        browser = new QWebView();       

        QVBoxLayout layout = new QVBoxLayout(this);
        layout.addWidget(field);
        layout.addWidget(browser);       

        field.returnPressed.connect(this, "open()");
    }       

    public void open() {
        String text = field.text();       

        if (text.indexOf("://") < 0)
            text = "http://" + text;       

        browser.load(new QUrl(text));
    }       

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        QApplication.initialize(args);       

        HelloWebKit widget = new HelloWebKit();
        widget.show();       

        QApplication.exec();
    }
}

That wasn’t difficult was it But can this actually render some normal webpages.. yes it can. So here goes another screenshot