Demonstrates how to print web pages using Qt WebEngine Widgets.
PrintMe demonstrates how to use the QWebEnginePage and QPrintDialog classes to print a web page. Further, it shows how to implement print preview by using the QPrintPreviewDialog class. For completeness, it also illustrates how to trigger a printing request within JavaScript.
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In this example, we create an internal HTML page that is added as a resource collection file (.qrc). The page shows only a small HTML message box that explains how to trigger printing by using keyboard shortcuts or clicking
a button. The button has the JavaScript onclick event attribute that calls the JavaScript window.print() function.
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>PrintMe</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
<script>
function printNow() {
window.print();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form class="form">
<img class="logo" src="icon.svg" alt="qtwebengine">
<div class="header">
<h1>Hello Paper World!</h1>
<h2>Press Ctrl+p to print with print preview</h2>
<h2>Press Ctrl+Shift+p to print without print preview</h2>
<h2>Click the button to print using JavaScript</h2>
<p class="button" onclick="printNow()">Print Now</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
In the main function, we first instantiate a QWebEngineView and set the URL to our internal HTML page. Next, we create a PrintHandler instance and pass the
requested page. For convenience, we also create keyboard shortcuts that can be used to call a print dialog or print preview dialog.
QWebEngineView view; view.setUrl(QUrl(QStringLiteral("qrc:/index.html"))); view.resize(1024, 750); view.show(); PrintHandler handler; handler.setView(&view); auto printPreviewShortCut = new QShortcut(QKeySequence(Qt::CTRL | Qt::Key_P), &view); auto printShortCut = new QShortcut(QKeySequence(Qt::CTRL | Qt::SHIFT | Qt::Key_P), &view); QObject::connect(printPreviewShortCut, &QShortcut::activated, &handler, &PrintHandler::printPreview); QObject::connect(printShortCut, &QShortcut::activated, &handler, &PrintHandler::print);
In the PrintHandler class, we first implement printPreview(), where we instantiate QPrintPreviewDialog. We need the QPrintPreviewDialog::paintRequested handle to generate a set of preview pages.
void PrintHandler::printPreview() { if (!m_view) return; if (m_inPrintPreview) return; m_inPrintPreview = true; QPrintPreviewDialog preview(&m_printer, m_view); connect(&preview, &QPrintPreviewDialog::paintRequested, this, &PrintHandler::printDocument); preview.exec(); m_inPrintPreview = false; }
Now we can implement the PrintHandler::printDocument() slot, which is called in response to the QPrintPreviewDialog::paintRequested signal. To do actual
painting on a printer, we call the QWebEngineView::print() function. Because this call is asynchronous, we need to use a local event loop. We begin the local event loop by calling
QEventLoop::exec().
void PrintHandler::printDocument(QPrinter *printer) { m_view->print(printer); m_waitForResult.exec(); }
To get notified about the result of printing job, we implement PrintHandler::printFinished() slot as handler of QWebEngineView::printFinished() signal. We
check for success and report any errors that occurred.
void PrintHandler::printFinished(bool success) { if (!success) { QPainter painter; if (painter.begin(&m_printer)) { QFont font = painter.font(); font.setPixelSize(20); painter.setFont(font); painter.drawText(QPointF(10,25), QStringLiteral("Could not generate print preview.")); painter.end(); } } m_waitForResult.quit(); }
The last function we implement, PrintHandler::print(), is trivial, because it simply opens QPrintDialog and calls the previously implemented
PrintHandler::printDocument().
void PrintHandler::print() { QPrintDialog dialog(&m_printer, m_view); if (dialog.exec() != QDialog::Accepted) return; printDocument(&m_printer); }
