1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: interface of wxWebView
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10 Zoom levels available in wxWebView
15 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_SMALL
,
16 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_MEDIUM
, //!< default size
17 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_LARGE
,
18 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_LARGEST
22 The type of zooming that the web view control can perform
24 enum wxWebViewZoomType
27 The entire layout scales when zooming, including images
29 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_TYPE_LAYOUT
,
31 Only the text changes in size when zooming, images and other layout
32 elements retain their initial size
34 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_TYPE_TEXT
38 Types of errors that can cause navigation to fail
40 enum wxWebViewNavigationError
42 /** Connection error (timeout, etc.) */
43 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_CONNECTION
,
44 /** Invalid certificate */
45 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_CERTIFICATE
,
46 /** Authentication required */
48 /** Other security error */
49 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_SECURITY
,
50 /** Requested resource not found */
51 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_NOT_FOUND
,
52 /** Invalid request/parameters (e.g. bad URL, bad protocol,
53 unsupported resource type) */
54 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_REQUEST
,
55 /** The user cancelled (e.g. in a dialog) */
56 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_USER_CANCELLED
,
57 /** Another (exotic) type of error that didn't fit in other categories*/
64 enum wxWebViewReloadFlags
66 /** Default reload, will access cache */
67 wxWEB_VIEW_RELOAD_DEFAULT
,
68 /** Reload the current view without accessing the cache */
69 wxWEB_VIEW_RELOAD_NO_CACHE
73 Find flags used when searching for text on page.
75 enum wxWebViewFindFlags
77 /** Causes the search to restart when end or beginning reached */
78 wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_WRAP
= 0x0001,
80 /** Matches an entire word when searching */
81 wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_ENTIRE_WORD
= 0x0002,
83 /** Match case, i.e. case sensitive searching */
84 wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_MATCH_CASE
= 0x0004,
86 /** Highlights the search results */
87 wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_HIGHLIGHT_RESULT
= 0x0008,
89 /** Searches for phrase in backward direction */
90 wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_BACKWARDS
= 0x0010,
92 /** The default flag, which is simple searching */
93 wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_DEFAULT
= 0
97 * List of available backends for wxWebView
101 /** Value that may be passed to wxWebView to let it pick an appropriate
102 * engine for the current platform*/
103 wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_DEFAULT
,
105 /** The WebKit web engine */
106 wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_WEBKIT
,
108 /** Use Microsoft Internet Explorer as web engine */
109 wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_IE
113 @class wxWebViewHistoryItem
115 A simple class that contains the URL and title of an element of the history
124 class wxWebViewHistoryItem
130 wxWebViewHistoryItem(const wxString
& url
, const wxString
& title
);
133 @return The url of the page.
138 @return The title of the page.
144 @class wxWebViewFactory
146 An abstract factory class for creating wxWebView backends. Each
147 implementation of wxWebView should have its own factory.
155 class wxWebViewFactory
: public wxObject
159 Function to create a new wxWebView with two-step creation,
160 wxWebView::Create should be called on the returned object.
161 @return the created wxWebView
163 virtual wxWebView
* Create() = 0;
166 Function to create a new wxWebView with parameters.
167 @param parent Parent window for the control
168 @param id ID of this control
169 @param url Initial URL to load
170 @param pos Position of the control
171 @param size Size of the control
172 @return the created wxWebView
174 virtual wxWebView
* Create(wxWindow
* parent
,
176 const wxString
& url
= wxWebViewDefaultURLStr
,
177 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
,
178 const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
,
180 const wxString
& name
= wxWebViewNameStr
) = 0;
184 @class wxWebViewHandler
186 The base class for handling custom schemes in wxWebView, for example to
187 allow virtual file system support.
195 class wxWebViewHandler
199 Constructor. Takes the name of the scheme that will be handled by this
200 class for example @c file or @c zip.
202 wxWebViewHandler(const wxString
& scheme
);
205 @return A pointer to the file represented by @c uri.
207 virtual wxFSFile
* GetFile(const wxString
&uri
) = 0;
210 @return The name of the scheme, as passed to the constructor.
212 virtual wxString
GetName() const;
218 This control may be used to render web (HTML / CSS / javascript) documents.
219 It is designed to allow the creation of multiple backends for each port,
220 although currently just one is available. It differs from wxHtmlWindow in
221 that each backend is actually a full rendering engine, Trident on MSW and
222 Webkit on OSX and GTK. This allows the correct viewing complex pages with
225 @section descriptions Backend Descriptions
227 @par wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_IE (MSW)
229 The IE backend uses Microsoft's Trident rendering engine, specifically the
230 version used by the locally installed copy of Internet Explorer. As such it
231 is only available for the MSW port. By default recent versions of the
232 <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752085%28v=VS.85%29.aspx">WebBrowser</a>
233 control, which this backend uses, emulate Internet Explorer 7. This can be
234 changed with a registry setting, see
235 <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330730%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#browser_emulation">
236 this</a> article for more information. This backend has full support for
237 custom schemes and virtual file systems.
239 @par wxWEB_VIEW_WEBKIT (GTK)
241 Under GTK the WebKit backend uses
242 <a href="http://webkitgtk.org/">WebKitGTK+</a>. The current minimum version
243 required is 1.3.1 which ships by default with Ubuntu Natty and Debian
244 Wheezy and has the package name libwebkitgtk-dev. Custom schemes and
245 virtual files systems are supported under this backend, however embedded
246 resources such as images and stylesheets are currently loaded using the
249 @par wxWEB_VIEW_WEBKIT (OSX)
251 The OSX WebKit backend uses Apple's
252 <a href="http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/WebKit/Classes/WebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001903">WebView</a>
253 class. This backend has full support for custom schemes and virtual file
256 @section async Asynchronous Notifications
258 Many of the methods in wxWebView are asynchronous, i.e. they return
259 immediately and perform their work in the background. This includes
260 functions such as LoadUrl() and Reload(). To receive notification of the
261 progress and completion of these functions you need to handle the events
262 that are provided. Specifically @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_LOADED notifies
263 when the page or a sub-frame has finished loading and
264 @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_ERROR notifies that an error has occurred.
266 @section vfs Virtual File Systems and Custom Schemes
268 wxWebView supports the registering of custom scheme handlers, for example
269 @c file or @c http. To do this create a new class which inherits from
270 wxWebViewHandler, where wxWebHandler::GetFile() returns a pointer to a
271 wxFSFile which represents the given url. You can then register your handler
272 with RegisterHandler() it will be called for all pages and resources.
274 wxWebViewFSHandler is provided to access the virtual file system encapsulated by
275 wxFileSystem. The wxMemoryFSHandler documentation gives an example of how this
278 wxWebViewArchiveHandler is provided to allow the navigation of pages inside a zip
279 archive. It supports paths of the form:
280 @c scheme:///C:/example/docs.zip;protocol=zip/main.htm
282 @beginEventEmissionTable{wxWebViewEvent}
283 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING(id, func)}
284 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING event, generated before trying
285 to get a resource. This event may be vetoed to prevent navigating to this
286 resource. Note that if the displayed HTML document has several frames, one
287 such event will be generated per frame.
288 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED(id, func)}
289 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED event generated after it was
290 confirmed that a resource would be requested. This event may not be vetoed.
291 Note that if the displayed HTML document has several frames, one such event
292 will be generated per frame.
293 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_LOADED(id, func)}
294 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_LOADED event generated when the document
295 is fully loaded and displayed. Note that if the displayed HTML document has
296 several frames, one such event will be generated per frame.
297 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_ERROR(id, func)}
298 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_ERROR event generated when a navigation
300 The integer associated with this event will be a wxWebNavigationError item.
301 The string associated with this event may contain a backend-specific more
302 precise error message/code.
303 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NEWWINDOW(id, func)}
304 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NEWWINDOW event, generated when a new
305 window is created. You must handle this event if you want anything to
306 happen, for example to load the page in a new window or tab.
307 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_TITLE_CHANGED(id, func)}
308 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_TITLE_CHANGED event, generated when
309 the page title changes. Use GetString to get the title.
314 @category{ctrl,webview}
315 @see wxWebViewHandler, wxWebViewEvent
317 class wxWebView
: public wxControl
322 Creation function for two-step creation.
324 virtual bool Create(wxWindow
* parent
,
326 const wxString
& url
= wxWebViewDefaultURLStr
,
327 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
,
328 const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
,
330 const wxString
& name
= wxWebViewNameStr
) = 0;
333 Factory function to create a new wxWebView with two-step creation,
334 wxWebView::Create should be called on the returned object.
335 @param backend The backend web rendering engine to use.
336 @c wxWebViewBackendDefault, @c wxWebViewBackendIE and
337 @c wxWebViewBackendWebKit are predefined where appropriate.
338 @return The created wxWebView
341 static wxWebView
* New(const wxString
& backend
= wxWebViewBackendDefault
);
344 Factory function to create a new wxWebView using a wxWebViewFactory.
345 @param parent Parent window for the control
346 @param id ID of this control
347 @param url Initial URL to load
348 @param pos Position of the control
349 @param size Size of the control
350 @param backend The backend web rendering engine to use.
351 @c wxWebViewBackendDefault, @c wxWebViewBackendIE and
352 @c wxWebViewBackendWebKit are predefined where appropriate.
353 @return The created wxWebView, or @c NULL if the requested backend
357 static wxWebView
* New(wxWindow
* parent
,
359 const wxString
& url
= wxWebViewDefaultURLStr
,
360 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
,
361 const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
,
362 const wxString
& backend
= wxWebViewBackendDefault
,
364 const wxString
& name
= wxWebViewNameStr
);
367 Allows the registering of new backend for wxWebView. @a backend can be
368 used as an argument to New().
369 @param backend The name for the new backend to be registered under
370 @param factory A shared pointer to the factory which creates the
374 static void RegisterFactory(const wxString
& backend
,
375 wxSharedPtr
<wxWebViewFactory
> factory
);
378 Get the title of the current web page, or its URL/path if title is not
381 virtual wxString
GetCurrentTitle() const = 0;
384 Get the URL of the currently displayed document.
386 virtual wxString
GetCurrentURL() const = 0;
389 Return the pointer to the native backend used by this control.
391 This method can be used to retrieve the pointer to the native rendering
392 engine used by this control. The return value needs to be down-casted
393 to the appropriate type depending on the platform: under Windows, it's
394 a pointer to IWebBrowser2 interface, under OS X it's a WebView pointer
395 and under GTK it's a WebKitWebView.
397 For example, you could set the WebKit options using this method:
399 #include <webkit/webkit.h>
403 wv = static_cast<WebKitWebView*>(m_window->GetNativeBackend());
405 WebKitWebSettings* settings = webkit_web_view_get_settings(wv);
406 g_object_set(G_OBJECT(settings),
407 "enable-frame-flattening", TRUE,
414 virtual void* GetNativeBackend() const = 0;
417 Get the HTML source code of the currently displayed document.
418 @return The HTML source code, or an empty string if no page is currently
421 virtual wxString
GetPageSource() const = 0;
424 Get the text of the current page.
426 virtual wxString
GetPageText() const = 0;
429 Returns whether the web control is currently busy (e.g.\ loading a page).
431 virtual bool IsBusy() const = 0;
434 Returns whether the web control is currently editable
436 virtual bool IsEditable() const = 0;
439 Load a web page from a URL
440 @param url The URL of the page to be loaded.
441 @note Web engines generally report errors asynchronously, so if you wish
442 to know whether loading the URL was successful, register to receive
443 navigation error events.
445 virtual void LoadURL(const wxString
& url
) = 0;
448 Opens a print dialog so that the user may print the currently
451 virtual void Print() = 0;
454 Registers a custom scheme handler.
455 @param handler A shared pointer to a wxWebHandler.
457 virtual void RegisterHandler(wxSharedPtr
<wxWebViewHandler
> handler
) = 0;
460 Reload the currently displayed URL.
461 @param flags A bit array that may optionally contain reload options.
463 virtual void Reload(wxWebViewReloadFlags flags
= wxWEB_VIEW_RELOAD_DEFAULT
) = 0;
466 Runs the given javascript code.
467 @note When using wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_IE you must wait for the current
468 page to finish loading before calling RunScript().
470 virtual void RunScript(const wxString
& javascript
) = 0;
473 Set the editable property of the web control. Enabling allows the user
474 to edit the page even if the @c contenteditable attribute is not set.
475 The exact capabilities vary with the backend being used.
477 virtual void SetEditable(bool enable
= true) = 0;
480 Set the displayed page source to the contents of the given string.
481 @param html The string that contains the HTML data to display.
482 @param baseUrl URL assigned to the HTML data, to be used to resolve
483 relative paths, for instance.
484 @note When using wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_IE you must wait for the current
485 page to finish loading before calling SetPage().
487 virtual void SetPage(const wxString
& html
, const wxString
& baseUrl
) = 0;
490 Set the displayed page source to the contents of the given stream.
491 @param html The stream to read HTML data from.
492 @param baseUrl URL assigned to the HTML data, to be used to resolve
493 relative paths, for instance.
495 virtual void SetPage(wxInputStream
& html
, wxString baseUrl
);
498 Stop the current page loading process, if any.
499 May trigger an error event of type @c wxWEB_NAV_ERR_USER_CANCELLED.
500 TODO: make @c wxWEB_NAV_ERR_USER_CANCELLED errors uniform across ports.
502 virtual void Stop() = 0;
509 Returns @true if the current selection can be copied.
511 @note This always returns @c true on the OSX WebKit backend.
513 virtual bool CanCopy() const = 0;
516 Returns @true if the current selection can be cut.
518 @note This always returns @c true on the OSX WebKit backend.
520 virtual bool CanCut() const = 0;
523 Returns @true if data can be pasted.
525 @note This always returns @c true on the OSX WebKit backend.
527 virtual bool CanPaste() const = 0;
530 Copies the current selection.
532 virtual void Copy() = 0;
535 Cuts the current selection.
537 virtual void Cut() = 0;
540 Pastes the current data.
542 virtual void Paste() = 0;
549 Enable or disable the right click context menu.
551 By default the standard context menu is enabled, this method can be
552 used to disable it or re-enable it later.
556 virtual void EnableContextMenu(bool enable
= true);
559 Returns @true if a context menu will be shown on right click.
563 virtual bool IsContextMenuEnabled() const;
570 Returns @true if it is possible to navigate backward in the history of
573 virtual bool CanGoBack() const = 0;
576 Returns @true if it is possible to navigate forward in the history of
579 virtual bool CanGoForward() const = 0;
582 Clear the history, this will also remove the visible page.
584 virtual void ClearHistory() = 0;
587 Enable or disable the history. This will also clear the history.
589 virtual void EnableHistory(bool enable
= true) = 0;
592 Returns a list of items in the back history. The first item in the
593 vector is the first page that was loaded by the control.
595 virtual wxVector
<wxSharedPtr
<wxWebViewHistoryItem
> > GetBackwardHistory() = 0;
598 Returns a list of items in the forward history. The first item in the
599 vector is the next item in the history with respect to the curently
602 virtual wxVector
<wxSharedPtr
<wxWebViewHistoryItem
> > GetForwardHistory() = 0;
605 Navigate back in the history of visited pages.
606 Only valid if CanGoBack() returns true.
608 virtual void GoBack() = 0;
611 Navigate forward in the history of visited pages.
612 Only valid if CanGoForward() returns true.
614 virtual void GoForward() = 0;
617 Loads a history item.
619 virtual void LoadHistoryItem(wxSharedPtr
<wxWebViewHistoryItem
> item
) = 0;
626 Clears the current selection.
628 virtual void ClearSelection() = 0;
631 Deletes the current selection. Note that for @c wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_WEBKIT
632 the selection must be editable, either through SetEditable or the
633 correct HTML attribute.
635 virtual void DeleteSelection() = 0;
638 Returns the currently selected source, if any.
640 virtual wxString
GetSelectedSource() const = 0;
643 Returns the currently selected text, if any.
645 virtual wxString
GetSelectedText() const = 0;
648 Returns @true if there is a current selection.
650 virtual bool HasSelection() const = 0;
653 Selects the entire page.
655 virtual void SelectAll() = 0;
662 Returns @true if there is an action to redo.
664 virtual bool CanRedo() const = 0;
667 Returns @true if there is an action to undo.
669 virtual bool CanUndo() const = 0;
672 Redos the last action.
674 virtual void Redo() = 0;
677 Undos the last action.
679 virtual void Undo() = 0;
686 Finds a phrase on the current page and if found, the control will
687 scroll the phrase into view and select it.
688 @param text The phrase to search for.
689 @param flags The flags for the search.
690 @return If search phrase was not found in combination with the flags
691 then @c wxNOT_FOUND is returned. If called for the first time
692 with search phrase then the total number of results will be
693 returned. Then for every time its called with the same search
694 phrase it will return the number of the current match.
695 @note This function will restart the search if the flags
696 @c wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_ENTIRE_WORD or @c wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_MATCH_CASE
697 are changed, since this will require a new search. To reset the
698 search, for example reseting the highlights call the function
699 with an empty search phrase. This always returns @c wxNOT_FOUND
700 on the OSX WebKit backend.
703 virtual long Find(const wxString
& text
, wxWebViewFindFlags flags
= wxWEB_VIEW_FIND_DEFAULT
) = 0;
710 Retrieve whether the current HTML engine supports a zoom type.
711 @param type The zoom type to test.
712 @return Whether this type of zoom is supported by this HTML engine
713 (and thus can be set through SetZoomType()).
715 virtual bool CanSetZoomType(wxWebViewZoomType type
) const = 0;
718 Get the zoom factor of the page.
719 @return The current level of zoom.
721 virtual wxWebViewZoom
GetZoom() const = 0;
724 Get how the zoom factor is currently interpreted.
725 @return How the zoom factor is currently interpreted by the HTML engine.
727 virtual wxWebViewZoomType
GetZoomType() const = 0;
730 Set the zoom factor of the page.
731 @param zoom How much to zoom (scale) the HTML document.
733 virtual void SetZoom(wxWebViewZoom zoom
) = 0;
736 Set how to interpret the zoom factor.
737 @param zoomType How the zoom factor should be interpreted by the
739 @note invoke CanSetZoomType() first, some HTML renderers may not
740 support all zoom types.
742 virtual void SetZoomType(wxWebViewZoomType zoomType
) = 0;
749 @class wxWebViewEvent
751 A navigation event holds information about events associated with
754 @beginEventEmissionTable{wxWebViewEvent}
755 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING(id, func)}
756 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING event, generated before trying
757 to get a resource. This event may be vetoed to prevent navigating to this
758 resource. Note that if the displayed HTML document has several frames, one
759 such event will be generated per frame.
760 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED(id, func)}
761 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED event generated after it was
762 confirmed that a resource would be requested. This event may not be vetoed.
763 Note that if the displayed HTML document has several frames, one such event
764 will be generated per frame.
765 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_LOADED(id, func)}
766 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_LOADED event generated when the document
767 is fully loaded and displayed. Note that if the displayed HTML document has
768 several frames, one such event will be generated per frame.
769 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_ERROR(id, func)}
770 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_ERROR event generated when a navigation
772 The integer associated with this event will be a wxWebNavigationError item.
773 The string associated with this event may contain a backend-specific more
774 precise error message/code.
775 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NEWWINDOW(id, func)}
776 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NEWWINDOW event, generated when a new
777 window is created. You must handle this event if you want anything to
778 happen, for example to load the page in a new window or tab.
779 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_TITLE_CHANGED(id, func)}
780 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_TITLE_CHANGED event, generated when
781 the page title changes. Use GetString to get the title.
786 @category{events,webview}
790 class wxWebViewEvent
: public wxNotifyEvent
794 wxWebViewEvent(wxEventType type
, int id
, const wxString href
,
795 const wxString target
);
798 Get the name of the target frame which the url of this event
799 has been or will be loaded into. This may return an emptry string
800 if the frame is not available.
802 const wxString
& GetTarget() const;
805 Get the URL being visited
807 const wxString
& GetURL() const;
811 wxEventType wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING
;
812 wxEventType wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED
;
813 wxEventType wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_LOADED
;
814 wxEventType wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_ERROR
;
815 wxEventType wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NEWWINDOW
;
816 wxEventType wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_TITLE_CHANGED
;