Opening an URL in external browser when newViewRequested signal emited

Question

I Use WebEngineView QML Type to show a web page that have some link that need to open in a new tab. Links are somethings like

<a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">Go to google in new tab</a>

I want to open the URL of newViewRequested signal in an external browser but the WebEngineNewViewRequest has no 'url' property that I can use with Qt.openUrlExternally(request.url).

WebEngineNewViewRequest has a private member QUrl m_requestedUrl that not accesible as property in qml. How can I handle the issue,get the URL and open it in an external browser. Thanks.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 26 '17 at 04:36

In Qt5, you can use navigationRequested signal to achieve this:

onNavigationRequested: function(request) {
    if (request.navigationType === WebEngineNavigationRequest.LinkClickedNavigation) {
        Qt.openUrlExternally(request.url)
    }
    request.action = WebEngineNavigationRequest.IgnoreRequest
}

The line of assigning IgnoreRequest to the action property is to make sure the URL is not opened in the WebEngineView.

Opening an URL in external browser when newViewRequested signal emited

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