[Gambas-user] Getting selected HTML in a WebView control (was Re: WebView1_MouseDown() question)

[Benoît Minisini]

> On Tuesday 23 August 2011 23:47:33 Benoît Minisini wrote:
> > > This code I got I think from the webview demo some time ago:
> > >  If hTest.Selected Then
> > >  
> > >         Clipboard.Copy(Webview1.SelectedText)
> > >         Print webview1.SelectedText
> > >    
> > >    End If
> > > 
> > > If the webview contains html, then the print webview1.selected text
> > > prints out plain text.
> > > 
> > > Is there anyway I can capture the html of the text? into a variable. It
> > > must be around somewhere because if  I select the text, due a ctrl
> > > copy, and then paste it into a textarea with the middle mouse button,
> > > then it is pasted as formatted html.
> > > 
> > > REgards
> > > 
> > > Richard
> > 
> > Apparently there is no way in QtWebKit to retrieve the HTML selected
> > 
> >  text... I will investigate.
> > 
> > And please if you can use a mail subject that is related to its contents!
> > 
> > Regards,

Hi, Richard.

I have added a WebView.Eval() method in the last revision. That method allows 
you to evaluate any JavaScript method in the context of the web page.

That way, I think you may get the selected HTML. But I don't know the DOM API 
enough to tell you if there is a method for that.

The following hack may work anyway:

	WebSettings[WebSettings.JavascriptCanAccessClipboard] = True
	MyWebView.Eval("document.execCommand('Copy', false, null)")
	Print Clipboard.Paste("text/html")

But the returned HTML is not pretty...

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini