QWebEngineView

[thiago.eec]

Hi

In one of my plugins, I'm using QWebEngineView as a way to show a HTML/CSS graph, using flexbox. It works just fine on calibre 6, but I had a hard time trying to make it work on older versions. If I remember correctly, calibre 4 and 5 have QWebEngineView, but you need to run it on a diferent process, and this leaded to crashes here (certainly something wrong I did).

First, I would like to know if there is another alternative to QWebEngineView that could work on calibre 4+, in a general way. It is important to have full HTML/CSS support, otherwise flexbox won't work.

Second, there is something bothering me with my current working code: the QDialog used to close when I pressed Esc; now, after adding the QWebEngineView widget, Esc doesn't work anymore... I have to click on the X.
I tried overriding closeEvent or keyPressEvent but nothing worked.

Any tips would be great!

[kovidgoyal]

No there are no alternatives to QWebEngineView that support full html/css. As for your escape issue, hard to say. Likely the web engine view is consuming the event. You can try installing an event filter.

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No there are no alternatives to QWebEngineView that support full html/css. As for your escape issue, hard to say. Likely the web engine view is consuming the event. You can try installing an event filter.

Thanks. I'll give it another try on calibre 4/5.
As for the ESC problem, I solved it by using setFocus() on another element.

[ownedbycats]

Just curious: Is this something for Goodreads or some other website? The 'friends' makes me think so. (I'd love to see something like this but pulling from my custom columns.)

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Just curious: Is this something for Goodreads or some other website? The 'friends' makes me think so. (I'd love to see something like this but pulling from my custom columns.)

Sorry, but no. It's for Skoob Sync. Skoob is a Brazilian website similar to Goodreads.

P.S.: And out of curiosity too... you mean to create the graph based on your monthly reading statistics?

[ownedbycats]

Yeah, something like that. Oh well

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

Sorry, but no. It's for Skoob Sync. Skoob is a Brazilian website similar to Goodreads.

P.S.: And out of curiosity too... you mean to create the graph based on your monthly reading statistics?

A very interesting job!
If it worked with goodreads, I would make a donation

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by dunhill

A very interesting job!
If it worked with goodreads, I would make a donation

I can't make it work inside Goodreads Sync, because that's not my plugin.
But I was thinking about creating a standalone plugin just to control your Reading Goal. It would use your custom columns, like @ownedbycats suggested.

It could use your data from Goodreads Sync (or you could just type it) to display the graph and other info (I don't think ranking is directly available by Goodreads Sync).

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

I can't make it work inside Goodreads Sync, because that's not my plugin.
But I was thinking about creating a standalone plugin just to control your Reading Goal. It would use your custom columns, like @ownedbycats suggested.

It could use your data from Goodreads Sync (or you could just type it) to display the graph and other info (I don't think ranking is directly available by Goodreads Sync).

Sorry, I misunderstood. The use of personal columns would be good. For example, I have a reading start date or a reading end date

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

I can't make it work inside Goodreads Sync, because that's not my plugin.
But I was thinking about creating a standalone plugin just to control your Reading Goal. It would use your custom columns, like @ownedbycats suggested.

It could use your data from Goodreads Sync (or you could just type it) to display the graph and other info (I don't think ranking is directly available by Goodreads Sync).

Done: Reading Goal plugin