Re: Error on Mint 22 with Gambas 3.20.2 when adding the gb.gui.qt.webview component

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Would be nice if someone with their experiences so far would minding 
posting a clear story about "How to do it these days"

Unfortunately, I have yet to embark on using the new thing "😕" yet.


On 7/4/25 12:19 am, Claus Dietrich wrote:
> > So I changed to gb.qt5 and gb.qt5.webview and everything seems to 
> > work fine.
>
> I have to withdraw the above statement and to apologize. What I didn't 
> test and notice (but Hans):
>
> Other than the deprecated WebKit-component the new WebView-control 
> doesn't support the method FindText. As search functions are 
> indispensable for HTML-Browsers, we will be forced to switch back to 
> the Webkit unless someone has an idea how we can emulate the following 
> search function with the new WebView component.
>
> Private Sub DoFind(Optional argBackward As Boolean)
>
>     Dim sFindText As String
>
>     If Not Trim(TextBoxFindKeyword.Text) Then Return
>
>     sFindText = TextBoxFindKeyword.Text
>
>     If WebViewPreview.FindText(sFindText, argBackward, 
> CheckBoxCaseSensitive.Value, True) = True Then  '-- TRUE = Search 
> *without* success!
>        HBoxHTMLFind.Background = &HFFDFDF
>     Else
>        HBoxHTMLFind.Background = Color.Default
>     Endif
>
> End
>
> With best regards
>
> Claus