Slime Engine

A QML webview wrapper to support both QtWebEngine and Oxide through one simple QML API.

Installation

Dependencies

• Qt >= 5.5 (QtQuick >= 2.5)

Either ...

• QtWebEngine >= 1.2

... or ...

• Oxide >= 1.15 and Ubuntu.DownloadManager >= 0.1

Build and Install

git clone https://github.com/tim-sueberkrueb/slime-engine
cd slime-engine
qmake && make
sudo make install

Usage

Try the demo:

cd slime-engine
qmlscene demo/Demo.qml

Minimal example:

import QtQuick 2.5
import SlimeEngine 0.2

WebView {
    engine: Slime.detectEngine()
    // engine: WebEngine.Oxide
    // engine: WebEngine.QtWebEngine
    url: "http://github.com"
}

Remember to call QtWebEngine::initialize(); from C++ when you're using QtWebEngine.

Releases

• v0.2
  • Current development release
  • Code cleanup and removed a lot of boilerplate code
  • Bug fixes
  • API changes:
    • NewViewRequest.openIn() and WebView.openRequest are no longer supported. Set WebView.request on creation of a new view instead.
    • Slime.backend was renamed to Slime.engineName
    • Slime.backendDetected was renamed to Slime.engineDetected
    • Slime.detectBackend() was renamed to Slime.detectEngine()
  • Slime no longer automatically detects the webengine
• v0.1
  • Initial alpha preview
  • There are some known bugs (fixed in v0.2) - do not use in production

Note: There is no stable realease, yet!

Copyright and License

(C) Copyright 2016 by Tim Süberkrüb

Slime Engine is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

See LICENSE for more information.