Obsolete Members for WebEngineView | Qt WebEngine (original) (raw)

The following members of QML type WebEngineView are deprecated. They are provided to keep old source code working. We strongly advise against using them in new code.

Properties

Signals

Methods

Property Documentation

Feature : enumeration [deprecated in 6.8]

This property is deprecated since QtWebEngine 6.8. We strongly advise against using it in new code.

Replaced by WebEnginePermission.PermissionType.

Describes the platform feature access categories that the user may be asked to grant or deny access to:

Constant Description
WebEngineView.Geolocation Location hardware or service.
WebEngineView.MediaAudioCapture Audio capture devices, such as microphones.
WebEngineView.MediaVideoCapture Video devices, such as cameras.
WebEngineView.MediaAudioVideoCapture Both audio and video capture devices.
WebEngineView.DesktopVideoCapture Video output capture, that is, the capture of the user's display. (Added in Qt 5.10)
WebEngineView.DesktopAudioVideoCapture Both audio and video output capture. (Added in Qt 5.10)
WebEngineView.Notifications Web notifications for the end-user.
WebEngineView.ClipboardReadWrite Read and write access for the clipboard. If both javascriptCanPaste and javascriptCanAccessClipboard settings are enabled, this permission will always be granted automatically and no feature requests will be made. (Added in Qt 6.8)
WebEngineView.LocalFontsAccess Access to the fonts installed on the user's machine. Only available on desktop platforms. (Added in Qt 6.8)

See also featurePermissionRequested() and grantFeaturePermission().

Signal Documentation

[since QtWebEngine 1.1, deprecated in 6.8] featurePermissionRequested(url securityOrigin, Feature feature)

This signal is deprecated since QtWebEngine 6.8. We strongly advise against using it in new code.

Use permissionRequested() instead.

This signal is emitted when the web site identified by securityOrigin requests to make use of the resource or device identified by feature.

Note: The corresponding handler is onFeaturePermissionRequested.

This signal was introduced in QtWebEngine 1.1.

See also grantFeaturePermission().

[since QtWebEngine 1.7, deprecated in 6.5] quotaRequested(QuotaRequest request)

This signal is deprecated since QtWebEngine 6.5. We strongly advise against using it in new code.

This signal is no longer emitted.

Requesting host quota is no longer supported by Chromium. The behavior of navigator.webkitPersistentStorage is identical to navigator.webkitTemporaryStorage.

For further details, see https://crbug.com/1233525

Note: The corresponding handler is onQuotaRequested.

This signal was introduced in QtWebEngine 1.7.

See also QuotaRequest.

Method Documentation

[since QtWebEngine 1.1, deprecated in 6.8] void grantFeaturePermission(url securityOrigin, Feature feature, bool granted)

This method is deprecated since QtWebEngine 6.8. We strongly advise against using it in new code.

Use webEnginePermission.grant() or webEnginePermission.deny() instead.

Sets or unsets the permission, depending on granted, for the web site identified by securityOrigin to use feature.

This method was introduced in QtWebEngine 1.1.

See also featurePermissionRequested().

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