MiniBrowser Tutorial note

[eighty-six at leadingpeak.ca]

Due to a recent update, a small change is necessary to complete the MiniBrowser tutorial . QWebEngineView is no longer available as a separate widget. Instead, one positions a generic Widget in the MainWindow in Designer, then "promotes" it to a WebEngineView. 

Eric's installation process includes PyQt6-WebEngine and PyQt6-WebEngine-Qt6, so those should already be present. (You could confirm using eric's PyPl interface.)

In Designer, add a generic Widget (from the Containers section) to your form and give it a name, vwWebEngine, say. Right click on it, then select "Promote to". In the pop-up enter:
    Promoted class name = QWebEngineView 
    header file = PyQt6.QtWebEngineWidgets
then click Add, then Promote.

As noted in the tutorial, the WebEngine wants the website URL in a QUrl object, so add that to the PyQt6.Core import line in mainwindow.py:
from PyQt6.QtCore import pyqtSlot, QUrl

Then lines like these should load the website:
        txtAddr = self.txtUrl.text()
        self.vwWebEngine.setUrl(QUrl(txtAddr))

Robert


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