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Bloke
Bloke

Reputation: 11

QWebkit (Qt 4.8.5) on Mac OS X won't play Adobe Flash

I'm running a little low on ideas about how to run flash animations in Qt (currently 4.8.5) on Apple Mac OS X (Lion). A simple snippet like the one that follows works smoothly both on windows and linux, loading the plugin just fine: 

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {      
  QApplication app(argc, argv);  
  QUrl url("http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about");

  // Set specific QWebView settings
  QWebSettings *defaultSettings = QWebSettings::globalSettings();
  defaultSettings->setAttribute(QWebSettings::JavascriptEnabled, true);
  defaultSettings->setAttribute(QWebSettings::PluginsEnabled, true);

  webview = new QWebView();
  webview->setGeometry(0,0,640,450);
  webview->load(url);                    
  webview->show();

  return app.exec();
}

I tried pretty much everything and after a thorough research on this topic these are the steps I followed with no luck:

My question is: is there ANYBODY that was ever able to run flash animations with Qt 4 and QWebkit on Mac OS X? If so, would anybody care to share his exact steps?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 357

Answers (1)

Giorgio Daino
Giorgio Daino

Reputation: 121

The problem is an incompatibility between Qt 4.8.x and the latest version of the flash plugin on OSX.

We opened an issue on Qt's Jira track system at https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32931, but it's still unresolved, and there's a duplicate of this question at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18142978/latest-flash-player-for-os-x-not-working-with-qt-4-8-n-applications.

Qt 5.x is working fine, anyway, so if you don't really need to stay on Qt4, just switch on the latest version of Qt and the same code should work.

Upvotes: 1

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