WebEngine Widgets PrintMe Example#

Demonstrates how to print web pages using Qt WebEngine Widgets.

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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.

Running the Example#

To run the example from Qt Creator, open the Welcome mode and select the example from Examples. For more information, visit Building and Running an Example.

Simple HTML Page#

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.

Main Function#

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.