1. QCefWidget

The QCefWidget project provide a widget that used to render and interact with webpage.

Support:

✅ Supports both CEF OSR and non-OSR mode;

✅ Show background transparent webpage in irregularity window;

✅ Javascript and Qt interaction;

✅ OpenGL graphics acceleration;

✅ Third-party input method software;

✅ Perfect exit app without any CEF assert/exception in debug/release mode;

✅ Separate CEF rendering process and plugin process;

✅ Support Adobe Flash without any warnning, eg "Control-click to run Adobe Flash Player".

✅ Drag/Drop frameless window like Electron throught setting CSS property.

✅ Move between mixed scale factor monitors.

2. Build Instruction

2.1 CMake

Download and install CMake.

2.2 Qt SDK

Download and install Qt SDK from Qt Downloads.

2.3 CEF binary distribution.

Download CEF binary distribution from Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) Automated Builds and extract it to dep (Optional) directory.

For example:

root
├─dep
│  └─cef_binary_80.1.15+g7b802c9+chromium-80.0.3987.163_windows32
├─src
└─test

2.4 config.cmake

Update the config.cmake to set the required build configurations.

2.4.1 QCefWidget SDK Version

SET(QCEF_VERSION_MAJOR 1)
SET(QCEF_VERSION_MINOR 0)
SET(QCEF_VERSION_PATCH 3)

2.4.2 CEF SDK

Special CEF SDK folder:

set(CEF_SDK_DIR  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/dep/cef_binary_76.1.13+gf19c584+chromium-76.0.3809.132_windows32")

Special CEF SDK version:

SET(CEF_VERSION_MAJOR 76)
SET(CEF_VERSION_MINOR 1)
SET(CEF_VERSION_PATCH 13)

CEF has two version format:

3.3683.1920.g9f41a27 / Chromium 73.0.3683.75
73.1.3+g46cf800+chromium-73.0.3683.75 / Chromium 73.0.3683.75

For CEF_VERSION_XXX macro, the first format type borrows the first 3 paragraphs of the Chromium's version number, the second format can use CEF's version directly.

QCefWidget library will use these version macro to support different CEF version, such as:

#if CEF_VERSION_MAJOR == 72
virtual bool OnProcessMessageReceived(CefRefPtr<CefBrowser> browser,
			CefProcessId source_process,
			CefRefPtr<CefProcessMessage> message) override;
#elif CEF_VERSION_MAJOR == 76 || CEF_VERSION_MAJOR == 89
virtual bool OnProcessMessageReceived(CefRefPtr<CefBrowser> browser,
			CefRefPtr<CefFrame> frame,
			CefProcessId source_process,
			CefRefPtr<CefProcessMessage> message) override;
#endif

2.5 Using CMake to build the project.

For example:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. && cmake --build .

3. Test

QCefWidget has been tested with follow Qt and CEF version:

Qt Version	CEF Version	Pass
5.12.10	3.3626.1895	✅
5.12.10	76.1.13	✅
5.12.10	89.0.18	✅
5.14.2	3.3626.1895	✅
5.15.2	74.1.19	✅
5.15.2	76.1.13	✅
5.15.2	89.0.18	✅
5.15.2	91.1.2	✅

In theory, other Qt5+ versions and CEF versions are also supported.

4. Usage

QCefWidgetTest is a perfect demo about how to use QCefWidget in test folder.

If SVG is blurry, copy iconengines to Debug or Release folder.

5. Donate

Open source is not a easy work, just Star⭐ it.

6. Code structure

The following figure shows about how to destroy the QCefWidget and window when user clicked the X button (or sends a WM_CLOSE message to the window):

When the window closed by QWidget::close(), the process of QCefWidget and window destruction is slightly different from the above picture, but it is roughly similar.

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