[PyQt] Synchronous WebView.load()

[alanm]

On Thursday 01 July 2010 2:13:47 pm alanm wrote:
> I have an app with a QWebView, and I'm trying to implement a "reset" button
> that will clear the history and return the user to the start page.
> 
> The method looks like this:
> 
> def reset_browser(self):
>     self.webview.load(self.startUrl)
>     self.webview.history().clear()
> 

After some experimenting, it turns out that the problem isn't quite what I 
thought it was.  In fact, it's almost the opposite problem.

I put self.webview.load() in a while loop so that it would continue to load 
while the history.currentItem().url() is not equal to the startUrl().  The 
loop turned out to be infinite.

As I understand it, the webview doesn't actually load the page and update 
itself until the method call returns; at which point it loads the new page and 
updates the history.

It seems like there's no way to do what I want in one function then, is there?