Embedding IE window inside a QFrame

Question

I'm trying to embed an IE window into a QFrame using QProcess to call the IE application. I'm working on Win7 32bit using Qt 5.2.1.

I have tried the following approaches

Try to set the parent of the process to be the frame, instead of the MainWindow by this
```
QProcess *process = new QProcess(ui->frame_Video);
```

AND by this

QProcess *process = new QProcess(ui->frame_Video); 
process->setParent(ui->frame_Video);

Then I tried to use the QWidget::createWindowContainer() method. This is the workflow I tried to follow:

Get the WId of the IE window (by using the hWnd of the IE window or another method) Use the QWindow::fromWinID() to create a Qwindow Pass the QWindow into QWidget::createWindowContainer()

My Questions:

Is it possible to embed an IE window into a Qt application?
With regards to my first method, how can I make a QFrame object a parent object of a QProcess
Is the third method valid? (I still need to find how to convert the hWnd into a WId)

I don't think `QProcess` implements anything for embedding. It runs a separate process (application) from your Qt application. You may try to look at `QAxWidget` instead. — vahancho, Jul 01 '14 at 11:45
Can an application (like IE) be run as an ActiveX control object? — user3079474, Jul 01 '14 at 11:47
@user3079474 Yes, and that's what you want to do, and you should be using the activeqt module for that. — Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica, Jul 01 '14 at 12:58

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '14 at 08:14

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The answers to my question

Yes, It is possible to embed an IE window into a Qt application, (as pointed out by @vahancho ) You will have to use QAxWidgets. See the web browser example in Examples/Activeqt for more details

answered Jul 02 '14 at 08:14

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