[webkit-gtk] how to trigger load_uri() to actually execute

[Robert Schroll]

I think you want to wait for the 'document-load-finished' signal.  But 
to have your signal handler run, the Gtk main loop needs to be running. 
 (The webview is probably also doing its loading in the main loop; note 
that a dialog runs its own loop, which would explain why that worked 
but the sleep didn't.)  So you can start the main loop after loading 
the URL, and then stop it after you do the printing.

Robert


from gi.repository import Gtk, WebKit

def do_print(view, frame):
    operation = Gtk.PrintOperation()
    operation.set_export_filename('webkit-print.pdf')
    frame.print_full(operation, Gtk.PrintOperationAction.EXPORT)
    Gtk.main_quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    view = WebKit.WebView()
    view.connect('document-load-finished', do_print)
    
view.load_uri('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format')
    Gtk.main()


On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Henning Sprang 
<henning.sprang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm totally new to Webkit and GTK programming, anf playing around with
> a PDF writing functionality,
> and I'm mostly there.
> 
> The code below actually does it - the problem being that the call to
> frame.print_()
> is opening an actual print dialog window, which I don't need.
> 
> But without, the PDF is only 1k because the the URI isn't actually
> loaded - the status is
> <enum WEBKIT_LOAD_PROVISIONAL of type WebKitLoadStatus>
> while, when calling the print_() method, afterwards the status is
> WEBKIT_LOAD_FINISHED
> 
> I guess there's some signal to make the engine actually load the url
> as it's not loaded until it's actually needed somewhere, which happens
> automatically in the interactive print functionality, but not in
> print_full() for some reason.
> But I don't really find out what I can do to trigger that. I tried to
> call a view.show(), view.show_all() - but no result. Ah, I also tried
> to sleep a while in between to wait for the load, but also no effect.
> I also tried to create and load a request explicitly, but same effect,
> it's only loaded provisionally.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any pointers
> 
> Henning
> 
> 
> here the code:
> 
> 
> from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, WebKit
> from time import sleep
> 
> view = WebKit.WebView()
> 
> request = Webkit.
> 
> view.load_uri('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format')
> 
> frame = view.get_main_frame()
> 
> print frame.get_load_status()
> 
> frame.print_()
> 
> print frame.get_load_status()
> 
> operation = Gtk.PrintOperation()
> operation.set_export_filename('PDF.pdf')
> frame.print_full(operation, Gtk.PrintOperationAction.EXPORT)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Henning Sprang
> http://www.sprang.de
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