Move wxWebView documentation into a separate interface file and add the wxWeb library...
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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: webview.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxWebView
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id:$
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9 /**
10 Zoom levels availiable in wxWebView
11 */
12 enum wxWebViewZoom
13 {
14 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_TINY,
15 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_SMALL,
16 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_MEDIUM, //!< default size
17 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_LARGE,
18 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_LARGEST
19 };
20
21 /**
22 The type of zooming that the web view control can perform
23 */
24 enum wxWebViewZoomType
25 {
26 /**
27 The entire layout scales when zooming, including images
28 */
29 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_TYPE_LAYOUT,
30 /**
31 Only the text changes in size when zooming, images and other layout
32 elements retain their initial size
33 */
34 wxWEB_VIEW_ZOOM_TYPE_TEXT
35 };
36
37 /**
38 Types of errors that can cause navigation to fail
39 */
40 enum wxWebNavigationError
41 {
42 /** Connection error (timeout, etc.) */
43 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_CONNECTION = 1,
44 /** Invalid certificate */
45 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_CERTIFICATE = 2,
46 /** Authentication required */
47 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_AUTH = 3,
48 /** Other security error */
49 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_SECURITY = 4,
50 /** Requested resource not found */
51 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_NOT_FOUND = 5,
52 /** Invalid request/parameters (e.g. bad URL, bad protocol,
53 unsupported resource type) */
54 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_REQUEST = 6,
55 /** The user cancelled (e.g. in a dialog) */
56 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_USER_CANCELLED = 7,
57 /** Another (exotic) type of error that didn't fit in other categories*/
58 wxWEB_NAV_ERR_OTHER = 8
59 };
60
61 /**
62 Type of refresh
63 */
64 enum wxWebViewReloadFlags
65 {
66 /** Default reload, will access cache */
67 wxWEB_VIEW_RELOAD_DEFAULT = 0,
68 /** Reload the current view without accessing the cache */
69 wxWEB_VIEW_RELOAD_NO_CACHE
70 };
71
72
73 /**
74 * List of available backends for wxWebView
75 */
76 enum wxWebViewBackend
77 {
78 /** Value that may be passed to wxWebView to let it pick an appropriate
79 * engine for the current platform*/
80 wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_DEFAULT,
81
82 /** The OSX-native WebKit web engine */
83 wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_OSX_WEBKIT,
84
85 /** The GTK port of the WebKit engine */
86 wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_GTK_WEBKIT,
87
88 /** Use Microsoft Internet Explorer as web engine */
89 wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_IE
90 };
91
92 /**
93 @class wxWebView
94
95 This control may be used to render web (HTML / CSS / javascript) documents.
96 Capabilities of the HTML renderer will depend upon the backed.
97 TODO: describe each backend and its capabilities here
98
99 Note that errors are generally reported asynchronously though the
100 @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_ERROR event described below.
101
102 @beginEventEmissionTable{wxWebNavigationEvent}
103 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING(id, func)}
104 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING event, generated before trying
105 to get a resource. This event may be vetoed to prevent navigating to this
106 resource. Note that if the displayed HTML document has several frames, one
107 such event will be generated per frame.
108 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED(id, func)}
109 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED event generated after it was
110 confirmed that a resource would be requested. This event may not be vetoed.
111 Note that if the displayed HTML document has several frames, one such event
112 will be generated per frame.
113 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_LOADED(id, func)}
114 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_LOADED event generated when the document
115 is fully loaded and displayed.
116 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_ERRROR(id, func)}
117 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_ERROR event generated when a navigation
118 error occurs.
119 The integer associated with this event will be a wxWebNavigationError item.
120 The string associated with this event may contain a backend-specific more
121 precise error message/code.
122 @endEventTable
123
124 @library{wxweb}
125 @category{ctrl}
126 */
127 class wxWebView : public wxControl
128 {
129 public:
130
131 /**
132 Creation function for two-step creation.
133 */
134 virtual bool Create(wxWindow* parent,
135 wxWindowID id,
136 const wxString& url,
137 const wxPoint& pos,
138 const wxSize& size,
139 long style,
140 const wxString& name) = 0;
141
142 /**
143 Factory function to create a new wxWebView for two-step creation
144 (you need to call wxWebView::Create on the returned object)
145 @param backend which web engine to use as backend for wxWebView
146 @return the created wxWebView, or NULL if the requested backend is
147 not available
148 */
149 static wxWebView* New(wxWebViewBackend backend = wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_DEFAULT);
150
151 /**
152 Factory function to create a new wxWebView
153 @param parent parent window to create this view in
154 @param id ID of this control
155 @param url URL to load by default in the web view
156 @param pos position to create this control at
157 (you may use wxDefaultPosition if you use sizers)
158 @param size size to create this control with
159 (you may use wxDefaultSize if you use sizers)
160 @param backend which web engine to use as backend for wxWebView
161 @return the created wxWebView, or NULL if the requested backend
162 is not available
163 */
164 static wxWebView* New(wxWindow* parent,
165 wxWindowID id,
166 const wxString& url = wxWebViewDefaultURLStr,
167 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
168 const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize,
169 wxWebViewBackend backend = wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_DEFAULT,
170 long style = 0,
171 const wxString& name = wxWebViewNameStr);
172
173
174 /**
175 Get whether it is possible to navigate back in the history of
176 visited pages
177 */
178 virtual bool CanGoBack() = 0;
179
180 /**
181 Get whether it is possible to navigate forward in the history of
182 visited pages
183 */
184 virtual bool CanGoForward() = 0;
185
186 /**
187 Navigate back in the history of visited pages.
188 Only valid if CanGoBack() returned true.
189 */
190 virtual void GoBack() = 0;
191
192 /**
193 Navigate forwardin the history of visited pages.
194 Only valid if CanGoForward() returned true.
195 */
196 virtual void GoForward() = 0;
197
198 /**
199 Load a HTMl document (web page) from a URL
200 @param url the URL where the HTML document to display can be found
201 @note web engines generally report errors asynchronously, so if you wish
202 to know whether loading the URL was successful, register to receive
203 navigation error events
204 */
205 virtual void LoadUrl(const wxString& url) = 0;
206
207 /**
208 Stop the current page loading process, if any.
209 May trigger an error event of type @c wxWEB_NAV_ERR_USER_CANCELLED.
210 TODO: make @c wxWEB_NAV_ERR_USER_CANCELLED errors uniform across ports.
211 */
212 virtual void Stop() = 0;
213
214 /**
215 Reload the currently displayed URL.
216 @param flags A bit array that may optionnally contain reload options
217 */
218 virtual void Reload(wxWebViewReloadFlags flags = wxWEB_VIEW_RELOAD_DEFAULT) = 0;
219
220
221 /**
222 Get the URL of the currently displayed document
223 */
224 virtual wxString GetCurrentURL() = 0;
225
226 /**
227 Get the title of the current web page, or its URL/path if title is not
228 available
229 */
230 virtual wxString GetCurrentTitle() = 0;
231
232 /**
233 Get the HTML source code of the currently displayed document
234 @return the HTML source code, or an empty string if no page is currently
235 shown
236 */
237 virtual wxString GetPageSource() = 0;
238
239 /**
240 Get the zoom factor of the page
241 @return How much the HTML document is zoomed (scaleed)
242 */
243 virtual wxWebViewZoom GetZoom() = 0;
244
245 /**
246 Set the zoom factor of the page
247 @param zoom How much to zoom (scale) the HTML document
248 */
249 virtual void SetZoom(wxWebViewZoom zoom) = 0;
250
251 /**
252 Set how to interpret the zoom factor
253 @param zoomType how the zoom factor should be interpreted by the
254 HTML engine
255 @note invoke canSetZoomType() first, some HTML renderers may not
256 support all zoom types
257 */
258 virtual void SetZoomType(wxWebViewZoomType zoomType) = 0;
259
260 /**
261 Get how the zoom factor is currently interpreted
262 @return how the zoom factor is currently interpreted by the HTML engine
263 */
264 virtual wxWebViewZoomType GetZoomType() const = 0;
265
266 /**
267 Retrieve whether the current HTML engine supports a type of zoom
268 @param type the type of zoom to test
269 @return whether this type of zoom is supported by this HTML engine
270 (and thus can be set through setZoomType())
271 */
272 virtual bool CanSetZoomType(wxWebViewZoomType type) const = 0;
273
274 /**
275 Set the displayed page source to the contents of the given string
276 @param html the string that contains the HTML data to display
277 @param baseUrl URL assigned to the HTML data, to be used to resolve
278 relative paths, for instance
279 */
280 virtual void SetPage(const wxString& html, const wxString& baseUrl) = 0;
281
282 /**
283 Set the displayed page source to the contents of the given stream
284 @param html the stream to read HTML data from
285 @param baseUrl URL assigned to the HTML data, to be used to resolve
286 relative paths, for instance
287 */
288 virtual void SetPage(wxInputStream& html, wxString baseUrl)
289 {
290 wxStringOutputStream stream;
291 stream.Write(html);
292 SetPage(stream.GetString(), baseUrl);
293 }
294
295 /**
296 Opens a print dialog so that the user may print the currently
297 displayed page.
298 */
299 virtual void Print() = 0;
300
301 /**
302 Returns whether the web control is currently busy (e.g. loading a page)
303 */
304 virtual bool IsBusy() = 0;
305 };
306
307
308
309
310 /**
311 @class wxWebNavigationEvent
312
313 A navigation event holds information about events associated with
314 wxWebView objects.
315
316 @beginEventEmissionTable{wxWebNavigationEvent}
317 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING(id, func)}
318 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATING event, generated before trying
319 to get a resource. This event may be vetoed to prevent navigating to this
320 resource. Note that if the displayed HTML document has several frames, one
321 such event will be generated per frame.
322 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED(id, func)}
323 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_NAVIGATED event generated after it was
324 confirmed that a resource would be requested. This event may not be vetoed.
325 Note that if the displayed HTML document has several frames, one such event
326 will be generated per frame.
327 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_LOADED(id, func)}
328 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_LOADED event generated when the document
329 is fully loaded and displayed.
330 @event{EVT_WEB_VIEW_ERRROR(id, func)}
331 Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_WEB_VIEW_ERROR event generated when a navigation
332 error occurs.
333 The integer associated with this event will be a wxWebNavigationError item.
334 The string associated with this event may contain a backend-specific more
335 precise error message/code.
336 @endEventTable
337
338 @library{wxweb}
339 @category{events}
340
341 @see wxWebView
342 */
343 class wxWebNavigationEvent : public wxCommandEvent
344 {
345 public:
346 wxWebNavigationEvent();
347 wxWebNavigationEvent(wxEventType type, int id, const wxString href,
348 const wxString target, bool canVeto);
349 /**
350 Get the URL being visited
351 */
352 const wxString& GetHref() const { return m_href; }
353
354 /**
355 Get the target (frame or window) in which the URL that caused this event
356 is viewed, or an empty string if not available.
357 */
358 const wxString& GetTarget() const;
359
360 // default copy ctor, assignment operator and dtor are ok
361 virtual wxEvent* Clone() const;
362
363 /**
364 Get whether this event may be vetoed (stopped/prevented). Only
365 meaningful for events fired before navigation takes place.
366 */
367 bool CanVeto() const;
368
369 /**
370 Whether this event was vetoed (stopped/prevented). Only meaningful for
371 events fired before navigation takes place.
372 */
373 bool IsVetoed() const;
374
375 /**
376 Veto (prevent/stop) this event. Only meaningful for events fired
377 before navigation takes place. Only valid if CanVeto() returned true.
378 */
379 void Veto();
380 };